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...noticeably in the breast of one of the fallen mighty. Prince Joachim Albrecht, composer and orchestra conductor, has followed Count Keyserling and Herr Ludwig across the sea, and has stirred up rather more of a storm than his predecessors. Unless his much-discussed concert materializes. America will miss a first-hand view of royalty, and the coiners of clever generalities on racial characteristics will lose a perfectly good example...
Work at Harvard will begin next fall, and it is planned to add to the University Faculty some of the most distinguished sinologists that can be secured. Primary emphasis will be on the study of the Chinese language as a necessary instrument in getting first-hand knowledge of Chinese history and civilization. Together with American students learning the language there will also be Chinese students at work learning occidental methods of scholarly research...
...course, there are some things that occasionally have to be 'theaterized' and lots of points aren't actual first-hand experience, but I always try to stick to nature, to do things naturally. Subjects related to humanity of today that's what I'm interested...
...same man went aboard the U. S. S. Washington when she was sunk in carrying out the disarmament agreement, and sat in a chair or her deck to learn first-hand what would happen when a 2000-pound bomb was exploded along-side...
During the Civil War, these two young Bostonians carried on a highly interesting correspondence. Ropes was at the time a student of law, while Gray was an officer in the Union Army. Their letters are of the greatest value as a source book of first-hand information, reproducing in a lively manner the day-by-day progress of the Civil War. Illustrated...