Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor George H. Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, will lecture in Emerson D. on February 10, at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Homer...
Hands Up. Famous players nave taken their newest comedian and wound him round with a Civil War burlesque. The action is somewhat mischievously placed in Utah, and Brigham Young and most of his wives are added for eccentric complication. The comedian is Raymond Griffith and the play has a double happy-ending. Thanks to the proximity of Salt Lake City, the hero is permitted to marry both his sweethearts...
Died. John Henry Bushman, 82, father of virile cinema actor Francis X. Bushman and of eleven other offspring, at Mount Washington, Md. He was a Civil War veteran, a descendant of one of three brothers (John, Isaac, Ephraim) who landed in the U. S. from Germany in pre-Revolutionary days and soon married three sisters Miller...
...Berne scholars are translating into Turkish 1,800 articles culled from the Swiss Civil Code. At Berlin 700 articles of the German Commercial Code are being similarly translated. At Rome 700 excerpts from the Italian Penal Code are passing into curlicues unintelligible to most Occidentals...
Last week, Daniel Guggenheim announced another benefaction of the powers of the earth to the pioneers of the air. He wrote U.S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover that he had established a Fund for the Promotion of Aviation, with trustees "of eminence and competence," to assist civil aeronautic activities and cooperate with governmental ones...