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Jean Capart who gave a similar series of lectures here in 1928, is president of the Institute of Art and Archeology, professor of the Origins of Art and Oriental Art at the University of Liege, and a director of the Royal Museums of the Cinquantenaire, Brussels. In his lectures this...
In dead of night, in a howling snow-storm last week the special train of Their Majesties the King & Queen of Siam entered the U. S. at Portal, N. Dak. Lean farm families and their shivering hound dogs crowded the snow-swept platform, pressed close to the brightly lighted train...
Biggest loss of members was suffered by the Methodist Episcopal Church: 43,211 during the year. Other losses: Oriental Orthodox, 37,200; Presbyterian, 22,763; Disciples of Christ, 18,567; Unitarian, 4,994.
"I suppose you know, my American friend, that the first treaty your country ever made with an oriental power was signed in Bangkok on March 20, 1833? That was ten years before your first treaty with China, twenty years before your first treaty with Japan!
As a child he was independent, not to say ferocious. With his brother and their sister, he used to knock down their nurses, jump on them. They smashed shopwindows to get at cakes. At Trinity College, Oxford, young Richard got into plenty of trouble, was "sent down" after two stormy...