Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accept either one of two portraits painted for that purpose by E. Hodgson Smart, a distinguished English artist. One of these portraits, described by Gertrude Richardson Brigham in Art and Archeology as "one of the few great portraits of a president," and considered by George B. Christian, the late President's friend and secretary, as the best painted likeness of Mr. Harding has been purchased by the present owners of the Marion Star and is now hanging in the office of that newspaper at Marion, Ohio. . . . The other Smart portrait of Mr. Harding is in the custody...
...without an official user last week, owing to the departure of Statesman Stimson for the U.S. (see col. 2). As the Amelia she was built in Scotland for King Carlos of Portugal when his son Manuel was a dashingly amorous prince. Many were the joyrides aboard her for the late, luscious actress Gaby Deslys (real name : Madeline Caire, 1884-1920). Manuel first espied Gaby in a disrobing act in a London music hall. Her baby-blue eyes went straight to his heart. He gowned her and be jeweled her from the Portuguese treasury, took her cruising on the Amelia...
...late war has left many scars in international feeling that are at last being healed by the processes of time as is indicated by the increasing number of students and professors exchanged between this country and Germany. The restrictions induced by a lack of a sufficient quota of foreign fellowships and scholarships, however, presents an impediment to this bond of mutual relations which is becoming more keenly felt. Dr. Adolf Morsback, director of the German Academic Exchange Service, indicates in his recent report that unless more money is devoted to this purpose it will soon reach the limit...
...York, N. Y., March 29--While Yale, Army, and Navy ran away with the honors, Harvard was hopelessly outclassed in the final matches of the Intercollegiate Fencing Tournament, completed here late tonight...
With the thought, enthusiasm, and money which has been expended in late years in reforming, if not wholly remodeling institutions of higher learning, there has become ever more apparent, the fact that the gap between the universities and the secondary schools not only has by no means been bridged, but rather is increasingly widening. Such must, indeed, inevitably be the case, the colleges advancing rapidly along the lines both of greatly diversifying their curricula and at the same time emphasizing specialization, the schools remaining essentially stationary both in courses of study offered, and in the attitude taken to them...