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...will find a good portrait of the Infanta Beatriz, Alfonso's eldest daughter and favorite child. She is very clever and has fine eyes, but she is not a beauty by any means. The King of Spain never signs Alfonso R. as you describe it; the Spanish custom is to sign Yo, El Rey (I, the King...
...School has a number of portrait medals the most valued being one of Sir Francis Bacon. Another medal of interest is one given by Sir Edward Coke to a friend upon his own appointment as Attorney General to King James I of England. It was the Custom at that period to distribute such medals as a memorial of important events in the lives of great statesmen and judicial officers...
...Anglo-American and Franco-American commissions.š the President chose Senators Lenroot of Wisconsin and Underwood of Alabama, respectively, to succeed the late Senator Gray of Delaware and the late one-time (1895-97) Secretary of State Richard Olney. ¶ "For a number of years it has been our custom as a nation to observe as National Fire Prevention Week, the week in which the anniversary of the great Chicago fire of 1871 occurs." Let custom continue, proclaimed the President, beginning October 9. ¶ Mrs. Coolidge went forth into the marts of fashion and bought $1,000 worth of gowns...
...direction of Roy Lamson '29, will give a varied program of popular music and classical adaptations on Sunday evening, October 2. This concert will inaugurate the Sunday evening entertainments which the graduate secretaries of the Union plan for every Sunday during the coming year. It has long been a custom of the Union management to give the men a special steak dinner on Sunday evening. Nearly 400 men come and it is the purpose of the Sunday entertainments to furnish a pleasant hour immediately after supper. These entertainments will combine music with moving pictures, and will last about one hour...
Harvard Hall has also contained at various time, the chapel, library commons. University offices and philosophical apparatus. From 1842 to 1871 it was the custom to serve Commencement dinners there...