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Another indication that the French have not forgotten Canada was once theirs, is to be seen in the French Colonial Exposition at Paris. There, in the Permanent Museum of French colonies, is a Canadian display, showing many mementos of the Marquis de Montcalm, the general who lost the province.
* Famed young Etonians this year are: Hon. Francis David Langhorne Astor and Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Viscounts Chelsea and Northland; Earl of Shrewsbury. Eton's many celebrated graduates include: 17 British Prime Ministers (Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis...
Twenty-two of the 28 members of the Federal Council's committee?including Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Dr. John Abner Marquis, onetime (1916) Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, President Albert William Heaven of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, and George Woodward Wickersham?approved the use of contraceptives.
Engaged. Count Henri de Castellane, Harvard student with the class of 1925, son of Vice President Count Stanislas de Castellane of the French Chamber of Deputies, nephew of the Marquis Marie Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane who was once husband of Anna Gould (she is now Duchesse de Talleyrand); and...
Other early recipients of the degree of LL.D. were: 1784, the Marquis de Lafayette: 1787, Thomas Jefferson; 1790, John-Jay; 1792, Samuel Adams of the class of 1740, Alexander Hamilton, and John Hancock of the class of 1754--1793, Samuel Philips of the class of 1771, the founder of Phillips...