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...PERCY POWELL (Original Subscriber) The Alumni Review, Chapel Hill, N. C. Kudos bestowed by the University of North Carolina last month: LL.D.'s on Federal Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte, N. C.; on State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. T. Allen, and Alfred M. Scales, wealthy Greens boro, N. C., businessman; Sc. D. on Dr. James B. Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute, Manhattan ; D. D. on Bishop Thomas C. Darst of the East Carolina Protestant Episcopal Diocese.-ED. Omitted...
Marvels. The ancient Hindu civilization which gave way to Islam in the 15th Century left behind it a wealth of temples and antiquities scarcely inferior in interest to any similar remains whatever. Though the great Boro-Budur in central Java is inferior to the Pyramid of Cheops in size it is an architectural chef-d'oeuvre no less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible...
...occasionally he called out, "Bravo, René." He, Jean Borotra, was playing against René Lacoste, conquerer of J. O. Anderson, for the championship of England at Wimbledon (TIME, July 6). On the sidelines sat the King of England, who was rumored to have a bet on Boro-tra. He did not know, perhaps, that Borotra, a young man who has never permitted his sport to interfere with his pleasure, had broken the monotony of the Wimbledon tournament by hurried week-end trips to Paris by airplane, returned somewhat pale. No young man who does that sort of thing...
Saturday, May 5: St. Mark's at South-boro...
COLLEGE NINE.- No game with West-boro. Practice at 3.30 today...