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...provision for the worst. Realizing that matters requiring his signature or decision were piling up, His Majesty expressed a desire to convoke the Privy Council and appoint a regency pro tempore. Cautiously the Royal physicians sought to divert the sick man from this purpose, fearing that the excitement and pomp of a meeting of the Privy Council might overtax his weakened heart. The patient remained adamant. Therefore the text of a suitable Order in Council was speedily drafted, members of the Privy Council assembled in the Audience Chamber adjoining His Majesty's bedroom, and the Secretary of State...
Enthroned. Most Rev. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 64, the 79th successor to St. Augustine as Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus ecclesiastical head of the Church of England, with royal pomp and circumstance in the historic cathedral of his See. Long intimate friend, honorary chaplain of Queen Victoria, persistent and smiling bachelor in spite of her advice to marry, Dr. Lang was most recently Archbishop of York...
...With pomp unusual to West Virginia, which has very few colleges, John Roscoe Turner, last week, was inaugurated President of the University of West Virginia. He had been Dean of New York University's Washington Square College in Manhattan. From a huge commercial community, he went to a small industrial one (Morgantown). From merely purveying education (economics is his specialty), he went to set a state's educational pace...
...stood gloriously on the bridge issuing resonant (though meaningless) nautical orders. His twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp and fanfare. In splendid military regalia he escorted shabby President Grant to a Boston jubilee, where many mistook him for president, and ever afterwards dubbed him Jubilee...
Although the "Enthronement" was now complete - insofar as Occidentals understand that idea - there would be several more days of pomp, during which the Tenno would personally inform the Sun Goddess what had occurred and offer her with filial piety the sacred rice (boiled). Finally, with hearts uplifted and pure, Emperor and Empress will participate in three joyous Grand Banquets, visit the Shrines of the Imperial Ancestors, and lastly open the national Chrysanthemum Party, gayest fête of the Japanese year...