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...earliest existing fragments of wood-block printing, a Chinese prayer scroll printed in 975 A.D. and recovered from the famous Red Pagoda, or Lai-fund Pagoda, at Hangchow, has been donated to the University Library of Jerome D. Green '96, director of the Tercentenary Celebration. The scroll, obtained by Mr. Greene in China in 1931, and said to be the only one of its kind of such ago in America, will be placed in the Treasure Room...
This Chinese scroll is a notable addition of the University's collection. The earliest specimen of more than 1,515 books, pamphlets, and papers printed in Europe before 1500 now in possession of the University, is St. Thomas Acquinas "Summa de Articulis Fidei," printed at Mains about 1460. There are several excellent Florentine and Venetian books and a perfect copy of Caxton's "Royal Book" printed in 1487 in England. There is also a Hebrew Bible, printed in Lisbon in 1490, and several Spanish items...
...between Britain, the U. S. and Japan, is so drawn that it runs on indefinitely unless denounced by one of the signatories. Two years' notice must be given of such denunciation and it cannot take effect before Dec. 31, 1936. To smash the 5-5-3 treaty on that earliest possible date, Japan must therefore file her denunciation promptly by Dec. 31, 1934. By that same token Ambassador Grew and team, representing the Powers in Tokyo, have a few more weeks in which to impress on the Japanese Government the colossal risks of denunciation...
According to Dr. Onderdonk, the "Next War" is not a horror picture. Starting with the earliest types of warfare, it shows knights in battle and scenes from the World War, and finally visualizes what is to be expected in the war of the future, with the new type of tanks, bombing planes, submarines, poison gas, and other modern war inventions...
...Earliest of the Administration's housing programs was the set-up whereby PWA would advance money to private limited dividend corporations to erect model housing communities. Results have been almost grotesque. Two projects are under way in New York City, one in The Bronx called Hillside, one in Queens called Boulevard Gardens...