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Professor Schumpeter was a visiting lecturer at Harvard during the academic year 1927-28 and in the first half of 1930-31. He has been, successively, professor at the University of Graz in Austria, at the University of Vienna, and at the University of Bonn. He has lectured at the London School of Economics, London University...
Died. Baron George Washington, 73, fifth cousin of the first U. S. President; near Graz, Austria. A retired Austrian Hussar officer, he refused to take up arms against the U. S. His last days were spent in his mountain castle, a bachelor, surrounded by six great hounds...
...flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then the Zeppelin flew to Graz and returned home via Vienna and Salzburg, completing the trip in 13½-hrs. For the Graf Zeppelin's next trip, May 15, to New York, passenger fare was fixed at $1,200; postage for a letter, $1.05; for a postcard, 55?...
...under the supervision of the Harvard-Yenching Institute which was established last year. The following four men, all of whom have already completed work under eminent sinologists at Harvard, will go to China next year: James R. Ware, A.M., University of Pennsylvania '25; Ernst Diez, Ph. D., University of Graz '02; Carl Schuster '27; Eugene K. Biggerstaff...
...roughneck" but the mother was a lady, tired always, with poverty and childbearing. Tini herself was always hungry, used to skip school often to go to the circus people in the marketplace where she cleaned monkey cages in exchange for food. Soldiers change their stations often. It was in Graz that the Rosslers bought a decrepit piano for a dollar and Tini mended it with string and sealing wax; in a Graz convent that the Mother Superior gave her her first singing lessons; in Graz that she sang first in public-the contralto part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...