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Near to apoplexy, last week, was Dr. Hugo Eckener. His Graf Zeppelin was about to sail from Friedrichshafen on a Mediterranean cruise with 28 passengers at $720 per head, when he learned that French officialdom had forbidden him to cross any part of France except at night, and except by way of the mountainous Swiss border. England had recently blocked his passing over Egypt. Cried the heckled aviator: "It is a heartbreaking struggle to achieve anything...
...more prominent speakers will be Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who will speak on Early Indian Architecture; Baron A. Von Stael Holstein of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will describe, with illustrations, the Lamaistic Pantheon of 800 Buddhists statuettes which he discovered in the Forbidden City of Pekin: Professor William Hung, also of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will discuss the finding of the Nestorian Tablet; Professor Louis Hodous, of the Hartford Seminary Foundation; Dr. Berthold Laufer, of the Field Museum, Chicago; and Professor K.S. Latourette, of Yale University...
...hurly-burly like that of the University of Missouri, (see above), but a sepulchral silence, fell last week upon the campus of the University of Detroit. By order of the President (Dr. John Patrick McNichols), the 300 girl students were forbidden to converse with the 2,900 boy students. They might, if they wished, say "Good morning" or even ''How do you do,'' but nothing more...
Necessary and desired as salt is, it is forbidden those suffering from high blood pressure, Bright's disease, dropsy. Victims can forego the ingestion of salt. But its taste they crave. Chemists and pharmacists have long sought to compound a substance that tastes like salt but is harmless in these diseases...
...must to all combinations in restraint of trade, divorce came, in 1911, to 33 units of the great Standard Oil trust. Since then, various units have reputedly flirted and dickered, one with another. But there have been no remarriages, strictly forbidden by U. S. Supreme Court decree...