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...arrived the first batch of Chinese government students in the U. S., among them young Tang Shao-yi. In 1912 Tang became First Premier of the Chinese Republic. Last week venerable Tang arrived in Canton, lent by his presence an air of respectability to the successful revolution there (TIME, May 11). Canton vernacular papers told their readers: "Tang Shao-yi is a personal friend of Hoover Herbert,* President of the United States of America. . . . Their friendship began 30 years ago when Hoover Herbert was a young engineer in China...
...advertisements of Manhattan's Sheffield Farms, a division of National Dairy Products Corp., Thomas Alva Edison lent his photograph and wrote: "The Almighty knew His business when He apportioned milk.* He is the best chemist we have...
...Gilbertian witticisms, and in rapid shading of tone and prompt assertive entrances so inherent in the music, the chorus did outstandingly well. Singing with enthusiasm which nevertheless was confined to tonal and not physical motions, the chorus interpreted the ringing operettas with much success, while Dr. Davison lent his hand with the accompaniments to trace the motivating harmonies and to follow neatly the swift running passages...
Under the direction of a group of Harvard and Radcliffe students an exhibition of 25 paintings, pastels, drawings, and monotypes, by Degas (1834-1917), is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, to remain until Saturday, May 30. The showing, items for which have been lent by prominent galleries and collectors in the east, has been made as complete in range as possible, presenting the late French master in all his various phases...
...most exhibitions of the work of Degas, emphasis has been laid not on his studies of the ballet and of the race-track, but upon his endeavors in the line of portraiture. Another feature of the show is a large unfinished canvas, "Woman at the Bath", which has been lent by an anonymous collector, and is on exhibition for the first time...