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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British warship in an emergency. At the present time there are only three King's Messengers: Major Custance, Lieut. Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled with diplomatic documents to Paris, where they board the Orient Express to Istanbul and Cairo. On the out trip they drop off boxes at Lausanne (for Geneva), Milan (for Rome), Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens, pick up others at the same points on their way home. No King's Messenger is necessary for Washington since Britain's diplomatic documents are brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crown's Week | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...other difficulty which the committee encounters particularly with these remaining 23 was the failure of a certain percentage of the Freshmen to express any real preference for one field. This indecision explains in many of the 23 cases the lack of assignment to any field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 90 PERCENT OF '38 GET FIRST CHOICE IN CONCENTRATION | 5/1/1936 | See Source »

...legitimate appraisal of a department's teachers seems to me to lose much of its value when the students who are called upon to give their opinion are chosen by the department itself, and when some of the men who are thus selected to represent undergraduate, opinion avowedly express their intention to 'boost their tutor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY APPRAISAL | 4/28/1936 | See Source »

...Greist wrote to his superiors on the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church: "Now I am beginning to feel that the Lord is ready to excuse me from further service on this coast. Prayer and earnest seeking after the mind of the Spirit causes me to express myself thus. I have nothing to regret save my limited ability to serve Him. Many souls have been brought to the Lord Jesus Christ and I have preached the word with all faithfulness. And yet I shall leave my heart within this far North for whose people I have poured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Excused from Service | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...appraisal of a department's teachers seems to me to lose much of its value when (1) the students who are called upon to give their opinion are chosen by the department itself, and (2) when some of the men who are thus selected to represent undergraduate opinion avowedly express their intention to "boost their tutor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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