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...days ago, is now hundreds of miles off to the northeast, and will no longer affect this locality; the only low pressure area which will come to Boston is now over a thousand miles away in the northwest and cannot possibly reach Cambridge before Monday at the earliest...
...Kebir, near Asyút, excavations of the British School of Archeology disclosed relics covering every period of Egyptian history and prehistory. The chief find was a papyrus manuscript of St. John's Gospel in early Coptic, midway between the Vatican and Sinaitic codices (earliest Greek Biblical manuscripts). It was wrapped in linen rags in an earthen pot, much of it in perfect condition, and is now on exhibition at University College, London. It dates from the Fourth Century and differs in several ways from the orthodox text. An iron dagger, considered the oldest iron implement known (about...
President Coolidge issued a proclamation today calling for observance of the week beginning Nov. 18 as National Education Week. . . . "From its earliest beginnings," the proclamation says, "America has been devoted to the cause of education. . . . We have observed the evidences of a broadening vision of the whole educational system. This has included a recognition that education must not end with the period of school attendance, but must be given every encouragement thereafter. To this end the night schools of the cities, the moonlight schools of the southern Appalachian countries, the extension work of the colleges and universities, the provision...
Where early Masonry had as its basis the study of architecture and the building arts, modern Masonic teachings embrace all departments of knowledge, reinforced and decked out with a glamorous, heterogeneous heritage more or less accurately attributed to the Order's earliest days. Conservative theorists date this heritage from the dawn of English industry. More romantic Masons claim Solomon for the first Grand Master, and even Euclid...
...Premier was invited to call on the President at the White House during his visit this month to U. S. cities. Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Lloyd George have this in common: each of them had a humble village cobbler as his earliest political adviser. Mr. Lloyd George's cobbler happened also to be his uncle and his acting father. Mr. Coolidge's cobbler is, as everyone knows, James Lucey of Northampton, Mass...