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...Chile), whence the narrow gauge Transandine Railway climbs up to burrow through the Cumbre tunnel at an altitude of 10,452 feet. Half a mile higher, on a ridge in the oldtime Cumbre pass, stands "Christ of the Andes," the peace statue which Chile and Argentine cast from their cannon after Edward VII of England arbitrated their last quarrel in 1902. "Peace to all nations" says that statue's pedestal...
...international politics the position of Argentina is most advanced. So long ago as 1902 Argentina and Chile were the first nations to sign a treaty binding each other to compulsory arbitration of all disputes. Cannon fired during previous Argentine-Chilean wars and skirmishes were then melted up and cast into a mighty statue: The Christ of the Andes (see Map). On the South American Continent this likeness of the Saviour with Cross is no less esteemed than North America's Liberty with Torch...
...Evidently the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Mc-Leod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, in New York, had not seen the circular. In his Thanksgiving sermon he criticized Hoover for going south on a dreadnought. Said he: "A Quaker on a battleship looks like a cannon in a parlor...
Robert Amory '06, of Boston, Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon '96 of Boston, Dr. Stanley Cobb '10 of Boston, Dr. Bronson Crothers '05 of Cambridge, Ralph Lowell '12 of Boston, and Dr. Fritz Bradley Talbot '00 of Boston, Charles Francis Adams '88 of Boston is acting as treasurer...
Professor Cannon has held his present post at Harvard since 1906. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Society de Biologie of Paris, and during the War was president of the Medical Research Society of the American Red Cross. He is the author of several books, among them, "A Laboratory Course in Physiology", "The Mechanical Forces of Digestion", and "Traumatic Shock...