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Tullio Levi-Civita, of the University of Rome, Rational Mechanics...
...been awarded the biennial prize of 10,000 lira by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for his memoir on the systems of differential equations. The prize award was conferred by Pope Plus XI, and in Professor Birkhoff's absence it was accepted for him by Professor Tallio Levi-Civita, member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences...
...Coup d'Etat whereby Editor Benito Mussolini became Dictator, he decreed, last week, inauguration of the following recently completed public works: new "Palace of Justice" in Messina, Sicily (cost some 20.000.000 lire); new Ministry of Marine and Ministry of Education buildings in Rome; new "Port of Rome" at Civita Vecchia (45 miles from the Capital); and two new commercial air services?respectively Rome-Syracuse-Tripoli and Rome- Genoa-Marseilles-Barcelona-Las Palmas, both routes served by 2,000 h.p. four-motored German super-Wahl seaplanes...
...Into Civita Vecchia steamed the S. S. Ryndam. Off trouped the undergraduate body of the University Afloat, 500 strong. In nearby Rome, Pope Pius XI prepared himself to receive an itinerant band of which he had heard: how it had sailed from Manhattan, via Panama, to Los Angeles, Yokohama, Shanghai, Siam, Egypt, Constantinople, Venice; how its members had studied manfully between excursions and receptions on shore; how its full-size college faculty had imparted learning, not only by lectures but by object and project lessons in the countries visited; how a daily newspaper was published aboard ship, edited...
While Il Duce triumphed at Genoa, King Vittorio Emanuele embarked at Civita Vecchia (port of Rome) upon the royal yacht Savoia for Sardinia. Escorting the Savoia steamed four dreadnoughts, three cruisers, 22 destroyers...