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...amphitheatre by the row-boat-ridden Serpentine, military bands were playing "Tipperary," "A Long, Long Trail," old songs of the War. The bands ceased. Into the amphitheatre marched massed choirs of London churches in cassock and cotta, at their head the sedate Bishop of Kensington, Rt. Rev. John Primatt Maud, solemn in billowing lawn sleeves, and pectoral cross. The Bishop took his place on the speakers' platform. A rocket curved up into the evening air. The Bishop of Kensington read the Lord's Prayer and a prayer for the King...
Both Bowdoin prizes, for the best translations, in Latin and in Greek, submitted to the Department of Classics, were won by John Primott Redcliffe Maud '29, of London, England. Each of these prizes was $50. The John Osborne Sargent prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace was awarded to Gerald Frank Else '29, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Honorable Mention went to David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey, and Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson '32, of Tuckahoe, New York...
...preference for Daimlers dates from the purchase of a one-cylinder car of that make by his father, Edward VII. That young iconoclast, Edward of Wales, owns a Rolls-Royce town car, but like his father uses a Crossley in the field. The Sovereign's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, recently gave her son, Crown Prince Olaf, a U. S. Marmon sedan (purchased in London) for a wedding present...
...native royal line of Norway-and finally declared the present dynasty hereditary. To Oslo with King Haakon VII came the Princess he had married in 1896, the youngest (third) daughter of His Majesty Edward VII, British King and Emperor, to reign as inconspicuous and reserved but very popular Queen Maud of Norway...
Thus last week nothing could have been more appropriate than the arrival at Oslo of Britain's tall Duke and plump Duchess of York in the quality of wedding guests. "Hello, Aunt Maud," said the Duke, and Her Majesty responded graciously, "Welcome to Norway, Albert." En route from London the British royalties passed incognito through Germany and achieved the first visit to Berlin ever made by a member of the House of Windsor...