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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton, N. J. Nov. 27--The John C. Green School of Science, one of the oldest Princeton buildings, was razed by fire at an early hour this morning. The loss has been estimated at over...
Still more outspoken is the President's aged mother-no Red, she. Once, when President Kalinin visited the log cottage where he was born and where his mother still lives, he asked her what she had done with her oldest...
...Japanese scholars are considerably more erudite than we realize", he continued, "and we certainly will have to keep busy to stay abreast of them. According to 4 this present unwritten agreement we have with the Imperial Institute they help us to get to the oldest records and examples of Japanese art while we assist them in studying our Western culture...
...sculpture of the Eighth century. This is chiefly centered around Nara, and so, using this town as headquarters, I managed to visit and inspect most of the temples and monasteries in the vincinity. I spent a great deal of time in the monastery of Horyuji. This is the oldest standing wooden building in the world. It was built in the Seventh century, and is a veritable treasure house for the most interesting and priceless of relics...
...tempest in the Yale teapot has become a tempest in the editorial rooms of the Yale Daily News. Today's issue of the "oldest college daily" carries three communications from associate editors in which the News and individuals connected with it are arraigned for the "playing up" of non-college Republican news and the "playing down" of Democratic news. The paper also carries a reply to the communications from Fred A. Simmons, Jr., Boston, managing editor, the most interesting part of which is a post-script in which he says "the managing editor of the News doesn't give...