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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composition is to be written for four or more voices, this year, for chorus, with or without solos, with or without accompaniment; the words are to be in English or Latin, religious or secular, selected or original. A prize will be awarded in case a composition is submitted which fulfills the requirements of the committee...
...Under-Secretary of State during the first year of the Harding administration, then went to Belgium, then to Italy. Last winter, President Coolidge called him home, as Harding did in 1923, to attend the Pan-American Congress. In addition to all this experience, Mr. Fletcher has learned about Latin-America from his three brothers, who own large mines in Nicaragua...
...will admit that the Great War was won on the football fields of the United Kingdom. Nothing strikes the foreigner more than your independence as citizens and even your cheek when abroad. The Englishman seems to have learned the restraint of leadership while boys in other countries are learning Latin and arithmetic. "There might have been no Great War in Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished Spanish man of letters Professor Salvador de Madariaga rose and presented with serenity and wit the case for esthetics...
...American countries. Panama, he stated, had already donated a site for the proposed half-million dollar Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, where tropical diseases would be studied, remedies devised. The U. S. had already appropriated an annual fund of $50,000 for research & administrative work. Dr. Martin proposed that the 21 Latin-American countries should participate, on a population pro rata basis, in contributing a total of $37,500 annually for the same purposes...
...Chicago, who was at Luxor, Egypt, his headquarters for Egyptian research. He sped to Dura, hastily made photographs and maps. As the result of his recommendations, the General Education Board gave money to dig at Dura. Rewards: rare colored frescoes, fine sculptures, important inscriptions, and best of all-Greek, Latin and Aramaic parchments. Rarely have parchments of the period been found outside of Egypt...