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...Princeton little excitement. Only a few years before (Class of 1923) Princeton had had a Siamese-popular little Boon Pitrachat, who won his letter playing soccer. And even Siamese princes are not rare in the U. S.: Prince Swasti Pradish Svasti graduated from West Point; Prince Nondiyavat Svasti from Georgetown last June; Prince Tong Ti Kayou went to San Francisco in 1928 to attend high school and learn baseball; Prince Arjuna Svasti to Yale in 1930; Prince Chukratong Tong-Vai is now studying entomology at Cornell; Prince Debriddhi Devakul is studying agriculture at Boscowen, N. H., supervised...
...minutes after 9 p. m. E. S. T. last Friday, Jesuit Fathers in their universities at Georgetown and Fordham watched seismographic needles squiggle excitedly across white paper drums. In snowy Cambridge, Harvard seismologists estimated the disturbance to be 2,600 mi. away. "You might be interested in knowing," a woman telephoned the New York Times, "that I have just tried to communicate with Los Angeles by telephone. The operator said: 'Sorry, I can't connect you. We're having an earthquake...
...Very Rev. William Coleman Nevils, Jesuit president of Georgetown University, found nothing harmful in the drawing, and a Catholic editor of the Junior Red Cross News pointed out that a Spanish parish priest might very well add "such homely touches" as giving a barley wafer (not a consecrated wheat wafer) to an animal. St. Anthony the Abbot is the patron of domestic animals as well as of hospitallers, basket-makers, butchers, gravediggers. On his feast, Jan. 17, the Italian and Spanish faithful may bring their animals to be blessed with a special prayer and be sprinkled with holy water...
Professor J. de Siqueira Coutinho, of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University will speak on the subject "Modern Portuguese Literature" at 5 o'clock today in Emerson 211. This lecture is being given under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and is open to all members of the University...
...served at Constantinople and Paris. Recalled from the London Embassy in 1930 he was made chief of the State Department's Division of International Conferences & Protocol, with which went the job of social arbiter at the White House. Resigning last year, he returned to private business, his Georgetown home, his garden with seven terraces...