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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Durham who taught the practical side of renovation of pictures damaged by time and poor treatment to Mr. Thompson when the latter was an Instructor in art at Harvard...
...reported that King Amanullah of Afghanistan has offended the Ulemas, to the extent that the latter have cancelled a farewell reception planned in the King's honor on his departure from Cairo. It seems that the conduct of King Amanullah during his visit to Cairo was not acceptable to them, and the cause of controversy seems to be the royal headgear. It is not that the King has overstepped the prerogatives of his crown, but rather that he has slighted them, and by so doing has injured their prestige. For the Ulemas are deseribed as religious leaders among the Moslems...
...Harvard men who were winners of the $100 prizes were: Richard Connell '15 of Green Farm, Connecticut, W. B. Pressey of Hanover, New Hampshire, S. C. Van Sickle of Springfield, Massachusetts, and T. S. Anderson of Providence, Rhode Island. The latter three took their degrees in the Graduate School of Education in 1917, 1921, and 1924 electively...
...Significance. Historical novels fall naturally into two classes; those which are novels and those which are histories. Only the few finest of the former are more valuable than the mediocre of the latter. The Ugly Duchess is one of these few. It is a novel, not a trick; in the life of the ugly duchess is written the life of all women who are ugly and who understand beauty...
...parties in the United States now," he cried. "One is the Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator Heflin lent his bovine eloquence, carrying on the Wall-Street-v.-Peepul theory until he had demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. The latter and a "crooked" subordinate had aided & abetted the cotton and grain "gambling gang" (brokers), roared Mr. Heflin. Let such rascals resign or be run out of Washington...