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Pound, vacationing in the Orient, will return to Cambridge next September. No comment was forthcoming from University officials on the creation of the new professorship, nor any possible occupant of the new chair...
Archaeology may not be a very exciting subject for the movies, but "The Human Adventure" is thoroughly entertaining, whether you know anything about archaeology or not. Much of the photography was done from an airplane, giving an excellent panorama of the Orient. Reproductions of the Tower of Babel and of Solomon's stables; the great art and architecture of the Palace of Darias; the hundred-foot-high Arch of Gtesiphon, which has withstood the storms of two thousand years; weapons used at Armageddon long before St. John's famous prophecy--scenes like these more than make up for the inevitable...
...Spain into a close approximation of the Italian Fascist Corporative State as set up and run by Il Duce. He answered in the negative Mr. Howard's question whether he is a Free Mason, adding a blanket disclaimer that his Whites have anything to do with the Grand Orient. Franco affirmed that his Government would negotiate a concordat with the Vatican, insuring that Spain remain Catholic. He refused to answer whether he would support restoration of the Monarchy, refused to guess when Madrid might be captured. On the historic Spanish question of Catalonia, always violently separatist, the Generalissimo said...
...Catholics had been held, as religious demonstrations against secularization, in such great cities as London, Chicago, Sydney, Buenos Aires, in such holy places as Lourdes and Jerusalem. The 33rd Eucharistic Congress, agreed the Committee and Pope Pius XI, would go to Manila in the Philippines, "Pearl of the Orient" not only to travel agents but, in the most spiritual sense, to the Church which shepherds 82% of its 18,000,000 souls, proudly claims them as the only Christian nation of the East...
...training in the narrow sense", says the Crimson. "It will seek to provide a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles and problems of public administration without reference to the branch of the public service which its graduates may enter, although it is expected that career men on leave may orient their work more definitely than recent graduates...