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...valued at 175 pounds or approximately $850 apiece are presented annually from a fund given in 1913 by Mr. Otto Beit of England. The successful candidates will devote all of their time during the year to original, scientific research at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in South Kensington near London, and at the end of this period are expected to compile the results of their work in the form of a book. Candidates for these fellowships may be either men or women who are under 25 years of age, both of whose parents are of European descent...
Further information may be found on the bulletin board near the delivery desk in Widener Library, while application blanks can be secured from the Rector, Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, S. W. 7, London. England...
...Kensington's Yesterday," Miss Barbey has written a story, charming because of its air of starched lawns and embroidered silks, mahogany treads, and flower borders. The style echoes the tone quite beautifully--in all but the last sentence. The last sentence should be brocaded; instead it is backed with buckram...
...Siena Academy. Matteo painted several pictures representing the "Massacre of the Innocents," two of which are still preserved. A third is in the Naples Gallery. A mosaic by him of the same subject is on the floor of the Siena Cathedral, a rubbing of which is in the South Kensington Museum. In the same cathedral there are two other pavements by Matteo. Other famous pictures by the master are in San Domenico at Siena, in the National Gallery, London, and in the Academy of Arts at Siena, as well as in other public and private collections...
...year, and especially to "A Late Spring," a story in which Mr. Cuthbert Wright subtly analyzes the emotional crisis of a young man who takes himself very, very seriously, and falls in love at first sight with a girl who is already engaged. He lives in the Bronx, or Kensington, or Evansville--one cannot tell; he has been to school in England or America, and to Harvard, Oxford, William and Mary, or the University of Edinburgh. His great experience occurs in a box at the opera in a city of some importance, and it must have happened some years...