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Word has been received that the French Government has created President Lowell an officer of the Legion of Honor. Such a distinction is given to Frenchmen and, less often, to foreigners only in recognition of eminent services rendered to the French nation. That it has been conferred upon President Lowell shows the high esteem in which he is held in France. It is evidence further that the French believe that he has been highly influential in arousing among Americans an interest in France and promoting friendship between the two nations. President Lowell's efforts that have resulted in putting upon...
Through a late despatch received yesterday afternoon, it was learned that the distinction of officer of the Legion of Honor has been conferred upon President Lowell by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic. The degree of knight of the Legion of Honor is itself highly esteemed; but the full value of the degree of officer will, be apprepreciated when one realizes that there are ten times as many knights as officers, and that the position held in the Legion by President Fallieres is but two grades higher than that which was conferred upon President Lowell. A comparatively...
...Harvard Club of New York City will hold a reception in President Eliot's honor this afternoon, and at 10 o'clock tomorrow the President and his party will sail for Cherbourg on the "Kron Prinz Wilhelm." Dr. Eliot will proceed directly to Genoa where he will take a North German Lloyd steamer for Ceylon, arriving at Colombo early in December. The next six weeks will be spent in India; the party will leave Calcutta in January for Singapore. From Singapore Dr. Eliot will take a side trip to Java and then sail for Hong Kong where he will spend...
...international peace movement is shifting from the realm of theory to the world of actual facts. The first definite steps were taken in its behalf at the Hague Conferences in 1899 and 1907. A tribunal was established to decide such international differences as did not touch the national honor or vital interests of the parties. The Declaration of London, not yet accepted, embodies a set of rules by which such international disputes shall be decided. The latest step in the same direction was taken last spring when the Taft administration opened negotiations for the peace treaties which now await ratification...
Besides being a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Professor Diehl is a licentiate in history and an LL.D. From 1891 to 1885, he taught successively at the French School in Rome, and in Athens. Since then he has devoted himself entirely to writing books on that period of history between the Christian era and the Middle Ages. His high position as a historian is not only due to his ability as a chronicler of events, but because of the sympathetic and picturesque way in which he treats his subject...