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...risky game started by the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, Dec. 21), and up to play it last week stepped a great ceremonial official of the Court of St. James, the Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston. While reading a lecture on ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits of how Edward is supposed to have been a trial to his mother, and Sir Gerald...
...Pittsburgh live three Catholic priests who believe that Mother Church can meet Radicalism, her archfoe, on its own ground. One night last week they assembled 300 followers in the Pittsburgh Lyceum to hear about their month-old Catholic Radical Alliance. With 200 working members, these priests have attempted to get into labor strife wherever it was thickest. Their activities had been featured on the front pages of the Pittsburgh Catholic, and last week that official organ of conservative Bishop Hugh Charles Boyle printed the Alliance's appeal for funds. Excerpts...
When Tsar Alexander I founded his Lyceum at Tsarskoe Selo to train gentlemen's sons for the government service, 12-year-old Pushkin was sent there because it was free, spent six precocious years annoying his masters, writing light and scurrilous verse, getting into scrapes. He paid little attention to study. Once, when called on to solve an algebra equation, Pushkin guessed the answer was zero. Bellowed the master: "Fine! In my class, Pushkin, everything ends in zero with you. Take your seat and write verses." He graduated from the Lyceum without honors but with a rising reputation...
...Three years after starting, the Harvard Corporation permitted it to use Dane Hall, where Lehman Hall now stands; (2) The Society was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1903; (3) In 1907, the Society bought Lyceum Hall which stood on the present site of the "Coop"; (4) In 1916, the Society opened a Branch Store opposite the Massachusetts Institute of Technology buildings...
Last week the younger, more methodical of the two. Dr. Max Euwe, was the new world chess champion. A mathematics teacher at the Girls' Lyceum in Amsterdam, he puzzled stolidly over his plays while Dr. Alexandre Alekhine fidgeted and squirmed in the chair opposite him, smoked countless cigarets, gulped countless cups of coffee. At first, Champion Alekhine's brilliant attack, bordering on the reckless, put him in the lead. On his 43rd birthday, after three weeks of play, he was leading, 5-to-2. Unworried, unhurried. Challenger Euwe drew closer. His opponent's moves, as recorded...