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...good; but his lordship allowed his irritation to rule his Salisbury head. He accused the U. S. of using more opium and narcotic drugs than the people of India, whose sacred rights he was also representing.- Such absurd charges all but broke up the conference. Mr. Porter took the earliest opportunity of rising to confront Lord Cecil with his black slander on the U. S. A situation had undoubtedly been created that called for diplomatic handling. Mr. Porter was anything but suave, he fell in Lord Cecil's error, replied angrily that the charge was a false and vile...
...destruction of the Louvain University in Belgium, particularly its magnicent Library-"that cradle of the finest religious and scientific thought from the earliest dawn of the Renaissance"-was part of the cost that heroic Belgium paid for opposing the Germans in 1914. It was out of admiration for Belgium's brave stand that Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, representing the people of the U. S., offered to rebuild and restock the Library...
Professor C. R. Post '04 and Professor G. H. Chase '96 have united in writing a book called "A History of Sculpture", recently published by Harper and Brothers. This book traces the rise and fall of the art of sculpture from earliest times to the present day, and does for its field what the various "outline" histories have done in other branches of human activity...
Ivan Okladsky became a revolutionary in his earliest days. He joined the Narodnaia Volia or Party of the People's Will-members of this party are better known as the Nihilists-which was led by Prince Peter Kropotkin, Catherine Breshkovsky, Nicholas Tchaikovsky...
...From earliest times the eclipse has been an occasion of awe and wonder. Savages used to abase themselves before the frown of God, and a religious ritual is still celebrated by Mohammedans on these days. Civilized man smiles at primitive superstition, and yet he is not different from his ancestor, for he still feels within himself the same quiver of respect. But with it is mingled a vast pride in man-made science which charts out and predicts even the minutest movements of the planets. The scientist, on this day, receives the full meed of popular awe before his divination...