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...Queen Alexandrine and I shall celebrate our silver wedding on April 26. We shall have as guests my brother, King Haakon of Norway, King Gustav of Sweden, and my aunts, Queen Mother Alexandria of England and Maria Feodorovna, Dowager Empress of Russia...
...possessive pronoun before the British Queen and omit it from Abraham Lincoln passes understanding. It is, however, true that the error is having a wonderful run. The Hon. Edward F. MsSweoney has, in a studied oration, alluded to the recreant attitude of people who refer to the late Empress of India as "our Queen Victoria." The Cambridge city council has resoluted against it, and from one end of the state to the other the changes will ring upon this transposition for some time to come...
...dated 1657. It is a splendidly rich piece of Rembrandt coloring and represents a thoughtful man seated in an armchair, gazing in a pensive and almost melancholy manner into the distance. The history of this superb painting can be traced back without interruption to the time of the famous Empress Catharine of Russia. This Bartholomew picture was known for a time in Russia as the "Troubetzkoy Rembrandt...
...Admitting that in such a hurried trip he must necessarily lose much of the picturesqueness and beauty of the scenery, Mr. Mears emphasized that this, however, was impossible in Japan, and threw photographs on the screen which were excellent witnesses to what he said. At Yokohama he took the "Empress of Russia" for America. A hydroplane took him ashore from the steamer to Seattle, and here he took the North Coast Limited for St. Paul. He arrived in New York on August 6 and the official record of his time was given as 35 days, 21 hours, and 25 minutes...
Professor W. H. Schofield '93, who was visiting professor from Harvard at the University of Berlin during the first half-year, will arrive in New York today on the steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. He has been graciously entertained abroad and recently dined with the Emperor and Empress of Germany. Professor Schofield will arrive in Cambridge on Monday...