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Rode before even the Tenno His Imperial Highness Prince Kanin, Honorary Executive of the Enthronement.* Came third the Empress, wearing an Occidental court gown of blue velvet, with large blue picture hat-her eyes cast modestly and fixedly down. The Tenno's brother, H.I.H. Chichibu, the heir presumptive, rode...
Five-Year-Old. On the fifth birthday of the Turkish Republic, last week, every State and Municipal official was examined to see whether he knew his ABC's. Scared and trembling like so many toddling five-year-olds, more than 1,000 potent functionaries submitted willy nilly to the...
Last week Kemal spoke less gargantuanly. First he opened Parliament. Then sonorously he recalled the triumphs of his regime-Sultan overthrown. Republic proclaimed, Calif overthrown, the Church disestablished, polygamy abolished, the fez abolished, women unveiled, and a new Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his...
To clear the Occidental air of "yellow peril" the distinguished Chinese philosopher, Hu Shih, denies, startlingly, conclusively, that the Western machine-age man controlled, is "materialistic" while the Oriental hand-to-mouth, disease-ridden existence is "spiritual," and therefore potentially superior.
More than three hundred students from other countries are at present enrolled in the University, a body whose growth began to take great advances upon the conclusion of the World war. The proportion of foreign students is still steadily increasing, and will apparently become a factor not to be overlooked...