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...Reinhardt Galleries went these artists, beheld what hung upon the walls, announced that they pitied the future Governor, that the Pitts- burgh society had their sympathy. They stood before the canvases, spread their legs into sententious V's, curled their lips. Others gazed, rapt, at the same canvases, like people brought before the face of holiness. A few, however, neither knelt nor mocked. "What," asked these, "are the virtues that have made Zuloaga famous ? Wliat are the faults that have made him popular?" Coldly, they considered...
...directors of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association will hold a meeting this morning to make plans for their campaign to have the Harvard Square subway rotunda removed. A public hearing on the question will beheld before the committee on street railways in room 433 of the State House, Boston, at 10.30 next Thursday morning...
Last week, peasants passing along a certain road beheld 15 cassocked figures doing manual labor under an armed guard supplied by the thoughtful Cheka. The peasants were ashamed, went to their village, killed all the Bolsheviki they could lay hands upon...
...AMBASSADOR'S MEMOIRS?Mau-rice Paleologue?Doran (3 vols., $7.50 each). The last French Ambassador to Imperial Russia tells in diary form of his experiences and of his impressions during the last fateful years of the Tsar's autocracy. The Ambassador's eyes have beheld many strange sights and his ears have heard many strange things, all of which have combined to make these books a foremost social and political history of late Imperial Russia...
...Berkeley, Calif., Walter Camp and others, to the estimated number of 100,000, sat beneath "Tight Wad Hill" and beheld California suddenly turn upon Stanford, methodically start rending her to bits. Late in the afternoon, Stanford grew annoyed, flung passes, drew from far behind to a 20-to-20 tie. It was the year's most notable Pacific Coast footballing, but indecisive since neither team had been beaten. If there is a titular shade, it favors Stanford, tied but this once to California's twice...