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...countries which glow translucently on an electrically-lighted earth globe in the office of a man in Cleveland. The man is not vain, but last week he looked with kindling pride at a point on the globe 270 miles east of Moscow, near Nishni Novgorod and between the Oka and Volga rivers. On that point he has pledged himself to build in the short space of 15 months a wholly new city for 25,000 Russians. The Soviet Government has agreed to pay him for his work $50,000,000-in dollars, in Cleveland. The contract-largest of its kind...
...Catholic churches of Canada are proving suspiciously inflammable. In the last nine months the three oldest shrines in the ancient province of Quebec have been destroyed by fire-St. Anne de Beaupré noted for its miraculous cures; the Trappist monastery at Oka, and the Basilica at Quebec. The Basilica was built in 1647 and contained magnificent windows and irreplaceable historical documents. The loss...
...Price Greenleaf Fund, for the academic year 1913-14, to the following 48 students in the College: Thomas James Abernethy '17, of West Pembroke, Me.; Saul Berman '17, of Roxbury; Lewis Edward Brett '17, of Malden; Walter Llewellyn Bullock '17, of Newcastle, Ind.; Roy William Chesnut '17, of Waynoka, Oka.; Maurice Cohen uC., of Washington; Maxwell Abraham Cohen '17, of Boston; Alexander Cooper '17, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ralph Lawrence Dodge '17, of Cambridge; James Warren Feeney '17, of Andover; Norman Lincoln Felder '17, of Pequannock, N. J.; Henry Sumner Finkel '17, of Roxbury; David Fisher '17, of Everett; Edward Philip...