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...bachelor London house, crowded with switchboards and phonographs, Ogden directs a propaganda for Basic English that is now worldwide, numbers such potent adherents as Britain's George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, America's John Dewey, Sweden's Sven Hedin, Japan's Y. Okakura. Small, spectacled, fair-haired, with a tight-lipped mouth like the late Calvin Coolidge's. from which purrs an endless stream of speech, 45-year-old Missionary Ogden is no fanatic but a scholarly enthusiast. Though he is a preacher of simplified language, he is capable of horrendous complexities...
Professor Y. Okakura, of Tokyo, will speak on "Japan and the West" in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The general subject of this series of eight free public lectures is "Japan, Past and Present." Tickets for the entire course may be obtained by mail of the Curator in Huntington Hall, free of charge. The remaining three lectures will be given on Tuesday and Friday evenings during February...
...fourth lecture of Professor Y. Okakura's course on "Japan, Past and Present" will be given in Huntington Hall, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of today's lecture will be "Chinese Civilization and Japan...
Professor Y. Okakura, of Tokyo, will deliver the third of a series of eight public lectures on "Japan, Past and President," in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The special subject for this lecture will be "Permanence of the Spirit of Old Japan." Tickets for the entire course may be obtained by mail of the Curator in Huntngton Hall, free of charge. This course will be given on Tuesday and Friday evenings during February...
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