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Last night under the auspices of the Harvard Mission. Mr. G. Z. Dimitroff, of Roberts College, Corstantinople, spoke in Standish Hall on the subject. "College Life in Europe" Mr Dimitroff, a Bulgarian, spent three years at Robert College, an institution founded by Americans in Constantinople. Since then he has spent six years at Boston University and at Harvard, concentrating in the field of Astronomy...
Berliners, scanning Eudoxia's autobiography, became convinced that she conscientiously wrote it herself. What "feature writer" would have set down bluntly: "Bulgarian women are naturally inclined to adapt themselves to the reasoning of men. Consequently we consider uncalled for such an innovation as women's suffrage...
Returning to the theme of royalty the Princess concludes: "On the stage and upon the motion picture screen we are portrayed with diamond crowns and robes of ermine.... As a matter of fact I have purchased exactly two new gowns in the last two years. Both are all Bulgarian in style, material and workmanship. . . . Princesses do not bedeck themselves .... We, like all women, deserve the best of our fatherland and of humanity as good housewives...
...Balkan crises lead to threats, overt acts, wars. During the past month a once healthy-looming crisis blew up, blew over, scarcely titillated the news cables of the world. Bulgarian comitadjis, "irregulars" (near-bandits), staged an impromptu raid across the Jugoslav frontier. Soon a collective note ("ultimatum") was despatched by Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece demanding that Bulgaria disband and disperse her comitadjis. Though these highly irregular gentry are not easily to be disbanded-even by the government to which they owe nominal allegiance-the Bulgarian Foreign Office drafted and despatched a sufficiently conciliatory reply to Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece last...
Fords, Bulgars. The Ford Motor Co. is reported to have privately offered a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bulgarian government with which to build roads, and to have secured the concession to open a motor car factory in Sofia. Thus the Bulgars will have double incitement to buy Fords, often jocosely called "road bugs," for pleasant travel in their craggy country...