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...Conferring of the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on retiring British Ambassador Rt. Hon. Sir Esme Howard by Georgetown University, in Washington...
...proposal to enlarge the existing Committee by adding thereto all of the full professors in the Department of Economics who were not then members of that Committee. In due time this action was taken; and the reconstituted Committee now consists of the following members: Professor C. J. Bullock (chairman), Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Mr. Robert Amory, Professors J. D. Black, H. H. Burbank, T. N. Carver, W. L. Crum, Mr. Frederic H. Curtiss, Professors W. B. Donham and E. F. Gay, Hon. Ogden L. Mills, Professors P. Sorokin and F. W. Taussig, Mr. Eugene V. R. Thayer, and Professor...
...quiet dinner chez Thomas William Lamont last week appropriately closed the brief U. S. visit of the most famed living native-born South African. No blackamoor is General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts. Indeed he roused the ire of U. S. blackamoors by alluding to their African ancestors and relatives as "the most patient of all animals" (TIME, Jan. 20). But Europeans will not be angry at what Africa's slim* Smuts said of Europe last week, just before he sailed on the Ile de France. Said...
...inhabitants of Western ("British") Samoa, mandate of New Zealand, eight of whom were killed by New Zealand police a fortnight ago. Last week the British cruiser Dunedin plowed through the South Pacific from Aukland, under orders to cow Samoans again. In Wellington, New Zealand's Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward looked owl-solemn above his waxed mustache and announced that "A firmer policy in administration in Samoa will be adopted...
...English alphabet to represent sounds accurately, he started calculating-14 sounds for "s," 22 for "long e," 21 for "ir," etc. Variant spellings for "ir" intrigued him: (h) er, (s) ir, (ch) or (ade), (c) er (tain), err, (theat)re (m)yrrh. For lowan reasons were included (n)ear, (hon)or. When he finished with "circumference," he figured 396,000,000 phonetic spellings...