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From the stair pillars frown two enormous busts composed of seven kinds of marble and believed to represent unidentified Arabian characters. Another treasure is the largest piece of Dresden pottery in the world. Dazzling curtains from Baghdad, authentic 18th Century French and Turkish furniture, and a display of solid silver plate bought by Sir Samuel's grandfather a century ago adorn a ménage which the Hoares find cozy...
...France had cashed in on its present position of friend to every European power except Germany by borrowing Italian masters from the museums of Russia, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, even Hungary. Germany surprisingly promised a slew of pictures, finally sent just two Tintorettos from the Dresden collection. But of the 490 pictures in last week's Italian Exhibition, Benito Mussolini had supplied...
...Ulich, visiting professor from Dresden, recently expressed the desire that a limited and trained few should have the opportunities of a higher education. This statement of opinion appears to summarize the present trend in thought current in the minds of educational leaders in both Europe and America...
...second half of the past year. Professor Salvemini served as Professor of History in the Universities of Messina, Pisa, and Florence from 1901 to 1925. Also continuing as Lecturer on Comparative Education is Robert Ulich who was until recently Professor of Philosophy at the Higher Technical School of Dresden. Dr. Ulich was in Cambridge during the second half of the past academic year and gave several public lectures...
Born in the Transvaal of a Dutch mother, an English father, Henry Landau's first vivid recollections are of the Boer War. Two languages were his by inheritance. German he acquired later as a boy at school in Dresden. In his travels about Europe he improved his French, picked up Flemish. He graduated from Cambridge where "scholastically I was a brilliant success," went in for engineering (Colorado School of Mines, London School of Mines). When the War came he joined an ambulance unit, was transferred to the artillery where he rose to a captaincy. When in 1916 British espionage...