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...game, not only for the shooting, but also for the purpose of studying the life-history of the animals, and the principles of protective coloration. Shortly thereafter Dr. Smith made an extensive trip, first to Somaliland and British East Africa, then from Alaska down through Korea, China, Java, and Persia. He then returned to Zermatt, and climbed several of the highest peaks in Switzerland, among them the Matterhorn, Weisshorn, and Dent-Blanche...
...Zwemer sends a request from the Tabriz Memorial School, of Tabriz, Persia, for a French and an English teacher at salaries of $450 a year, including travelling and living expenses. Besides these two positions, Dr. Zwemer has received from various government and mission stations during the past year calls for 140 men. These positions are for teachers of English, physics, chemistry, music and architecture. Also several men are needed as business agents and station managers...
Dean Wright was born at Urumjah, Persia, in 1852. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873, and three years later received from Dartmouth the degree of A. M. From 1876 until 1878 he was a student of classical philology and Sanskrit at Leipzig University, where he was the fellow student and intimate friend of the late Professor Minton Warren. In 1878 he became associate professor of Greek at Dartmouth; and in 1886 professor of classical philology at Johns Hopkins. The following year he became professor of Greek at Harvard, and was later made chairman of the division of ancient...
...Persia the Awakening East," by W. P. Cresson...
...Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907 is the most important understanding of its kind today. It gives England the ascendency in Afghanistan and equal rights in Persia and Thibet, but it frees Russia from all frontier troubles. France is the chief gainer by it, as the quarrels between England and Russia, which Germany has in the past turned to such good account against the French interest, are now obviated, and the affairs of France on three continents are thereby greatly improved and simplified...