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Then they memorialized the foundation of the Philosophical Faculty, presenting President Frank J. Goodnow with a parchment illuminated in gold and blue showing how highly they esteemed him. Professor L. Levy-Bruhl of the philosophical faculty of the Sorbonne was on the program to discuss "Research As It Is Today...
Dick Hall's house is a health home donated by Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Hall in memory of their son Richard, who died in Hanover in November, 1924. after a short illness. The cornerstone containing Dick Hall's numeral track sweater, a parchment signed by his classmates, and several other documents was laid last June by the class...
...many words. But it was an experience sufficient to supply Thomas Burke with a lifetime's devotion to the Limehouse district of London, where he and Charles Spencer Chaplin were Cockney urchins together. He is still writing out of the heart of that simple miracle worked by the parchment countenance of his old Chinaman, who later made signs and bestowed ginger. He still writes, briefly-of a sad-singing Chinee poet who could but die when well-meaning friends supplied him with his heart's desire; of a Chinee hunchback who may have been white-feathered Eros...
...Department of Tebessa, had ingratiated himself with Amenokal Akhamouk, monarch of the Tuaregs (who only a few years ago scourged the desert, slew foreigners), to such an extent that a royal edict was issued to find and lay before white archeologists a manuscript containing, in several hundred sheets of parchment, the only known history of the Tuaregs. This should throw much light on the history of the Punic Carthaginians with whom, it is now established, the Tuaregs traded extensively...
Since Baron Byng's term as Governor General expires next September, the occasion celebrated last week was considered an informal farewell to his officers. They opined that Pipe Major John Gillies of the Canadian Seaforth Highlanders well expressed their feelings when he presented a Gaelic sentiment on parchment to Lord and Lady Byng, saying "Nach bu mhaiseach an ni na'n robh thu tighinn thugain an aite bhi ga'r fargail...