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Simultaneously Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, matriculated at Oxford. His Royal Highness announced that he will remain for but one year, will confine his studies to literature, history, political science and economics...
Paunchy President Gaston Doumergue of France received last week at the Elysee a lean, taut-waisted, owlishly spectacled Jap, Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado...
...Prince Chichibu, though he turned the compliment deftly, may well have felt a smouldering pride at the thought that no personage of the blood imperial is known to have equaled his achievement in scaling nine of the principal mountains of Europe.* (TIME...
...Prince Chichibu began to explore the Northern Japanese Alps in 1923, and during 1924 scaled the snow-capped and hurricane swept Tateyama, one of the most dangerous and forbidding mountains in southern Japan. This youth of 24 who dropped in upon President Doumergue last week on his way to a winter of study at Oxford has indeed been chiefly responsible for the wave of interest in skiing and alpine climbing, now spreading over young Japan. Meanwhile those familiar with modern Nippon recalled that all the princes of the present ruling house are remarkable for their athletic prowess...
...know that Prince Chichibu of Japan has wintered and disported himself in Switzerland, and that he has survived an ankle strained while skating and ensuing measles...