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Last week in a Manhattan vaudeville theatre a man was speaking. "Nietzsche's," he said, "is the present philosophy of the Occidental world, with its gospel of self-assertion and self-expression, personal liberty and personal success." Beside him, on the stage, white lilies curved from the mouths of six...
The annual meeting of the American Oriental Society will be held at 9.30 o'clock today, in Phillips Brooks House. This meeting will be held in conjunction with the Second Conference on the Promotion of Chinese Studies.
Died. General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, 72, of Paris, Wartime hero, onetime Commander in Chief of France's Oriental Army, onetime High Commissioner in Syria; in Paris, three days after the death of his superior officer, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne...
A large number of international orientalist, authorities on Indic, Semitic, and Chinese studies, will assemble at Harvard on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of next week when the American Oriental Society meets in conjunction with the Second Conference on the Promotion of Chinese Studies under the auspices of the American Council...
Over fifty papers, on topics ranging throughout the entire field of Oriental religion, languages and life, will be presented during the sessions. The presidential address, by Professor Franklin Edgerton of Yale, will treat the subject, "The Upani-shads: what do they seek, and why?"