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With a gleaming cylinder of silk hat balanced ceremoniously in his left hand, France's President Gaston Doumergue walked through the galleries of the Petit Palais on the Champs Elysees last week to open, dedicate and inspect the completed home of a collection appraised at $5,000,000 and offered to the city of Paris nine years ago. For nearly an hour he wandered through beautifully paneled rooms, expressing his presidential approval of cabinets of Sevres and Meissen ("Dresden") porcelain, jeweled watches, Battersea enamel, signed furniture from the great French ebenistes, a priceless series of tapestries from cartoons...
...first of President Maloney's moves was to inspect the PRC properties. He did not find things just the way he would like them. Steam was the chief power used by PRC. It was produced in hand-fired boilers, carried in long, wasteful pipes. There were 32 old, uneconomical coal breaker-plants. A large amount of haulage was done by mules...
...representatives of the Bodleian Library and four other libraries at Oxford arrived in Cambridge this morning to spend three days at Harvard as the guests of President Lowell and the Masters of Lowell and Dunster Houses, it was announced yesterday. Their purpose is to inspect the University Library and gather information which they will need in drawing up the plans of a new library at Oxford...
...supplement the "layout" of the exterior "shots" previously published in the Transcript (last Wednesday), arrived at the doorway of Mr. Hammond's beautifully finished and furnished suite simultaneously with a half dozen or more of the head tutor's friends who had been invited in for tea and to inspect the newly-inhabited rooms. It was obviously, not the best time to make pictures, even if the photographer did have his heart and soul set on using up at least one plate on Mr. Hammond's combined library and living room. So the cameraman demurred, insisted that some other time...
...Inquisition, with the occasional aid of Franciscans. But the Inquisition no longer exists. The Black Friars confine themselves to the main purposes of their founder, St. Dominic of Guzman (1170-1221)-to preach, teach and missionize. Master General Gillet's visit to the U. S. was chiefly to inspect the work of his chief subordinates in this country. Those chiefs are Very Rev. Raymond Meagher of Manhattan, provincial of all Dominicans east of the Rocky Mountains, and Very Rev. Pius M. Driscoll of San Francisco, provincial west of the Rockies. They have about 600 fathers, clerical students...