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Because Cristobal Colon (sometimes known as Christoforo Colombo, or Christopher Columbus), son of Domenico Colombo, a wool comber of Genoa, planted his Green Cross and the royal banner of Spain on San Salvador, one twelfth of October, 431 years ago, there will be celebrations throughout this hemisphere next Friday. On that day the Pan-American International Women's Committee will hold conferences in the capitals of practically every Republic of both the Americas...
...reception in President Eliot's honor this afternoon, and at 10 o'clock tomorrow the President and his party will sail for Cherbourg on the "Kron Prinz Wilhelm." Dr. Eliot will proceed directly to Genoa where he will take a North German Lloyd steamer for Ceylon, arriving at Colombo early in December. The next six weeks will be spent in India; the party will leave Calcutta in January for Singapore. From Singapore Dr. Eliot will take a side trip to Java and then sail for Hong Kong where he will spend a week before going to Manila. After a short...
...Rutnam, A.M., president of Central College, Colombo, Ceylon, will deliver a lecture in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock, on "Present Political Conditions in India." The lecture, which is the first of the Political Club lectures of the year, will be open to all members of the Union...
From India, Professor Moore went to Hong Kong, China, by way of Colombo and Singapore. He was in China for over four months, during which time he travelled more than 10,000 miles within the limits of the Empire. His journeys led him as far inland as Hankou, 780 miles up the valley of the Yangtse River, and through the large province of Fukien. In following out his commission Professor Moore visited every station of the American Board in the Chinese Empire besides many more conducted by other societies, British and American, of all denominations...
...Ceylon, the Colombo association has a new building, and there as in many other places, the work is supported by Buddhists, Parsees, and Hindus as well as by Christians. Two prominent Hindus stated recently that "the Association restaurant has done more to break down caste in Southern India than any other agency, the Madras Railway not excepted...