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The purpose of the Institute is to promote both in China and America graduate study and research in the various branches of Chinese culture, with the primary objective of encouraging the Chinese to study their own highly, developed civilization in the light of occidental methods of research and to interpret...
The musical conspiracy hatching between Composer and Prince was a project to interpret for Occidental instruments of music the piercing quarter, eight and sixteenth tones beloved of Japanese musicians. Prince Tokugawa, founder of the first Japanese Symphony Orchestra, was not slow to summon tuneful minions who entertained his guest. Attentive...
In theory the Sultan was an absolute monarch, although in practice the French governed for him under the protectorate they exercise over Morocco. He was aged 30 when his brother, abdicating, nominated him as his successor, a choice that the College of Ulemas (wise men, meaning the Mohammedan religious heirarchy...
The afternoon was far from wasted, though, for the heroine was Hizi Koyke, a real Japanese. Exquisite, like a figure on a fan, she showed with the swaying of her body, the fluttering of her tiny hands a hundred little emotions beyond the reach of human voice. Three years ago...
In presenting an exhibition of the sculpture of Allan Clark, the Fogg Museum begins a most laudable policy of showing the work of contemporary artists. In this case the Museum has chosen a young sculptor of marked individuality. His work at once raises questions of aesthetic interest. Should sculpture be...