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Paris, the city that decapitated one pair of Bourbon monarchs 138 years ago, welcomed the King & Queen of Spain exuberantly last week. Dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had his bowler hat pushed over his eyes several times by ecstatic French and Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much...
Appointed. Aloysius G. Hogan, S.J., prefect of studies at the novitiate of St. Andrew-on-Hudson; to succeed Rev. William J. Duane, S.J., as president of Fordham University, New York; by the very Rev. Vlodimir Ledochowski, S.J. Superior General of the Society of Jesus at Rome...
...president, one of the youngest in the land, comes from Philadelphia. He entered the order in 1908, receiving his training at St. Joseph's College. For five years (1915-20) he taught classics at Boston College, for four (1923-27) he studied at Oxford. Since then he has been Prefect of Studies at the Novitiate of St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie...
Asked by the coroner to describe the routine to escape which Fag Fairhurst had killed himself, one witness explained: "Each new boy is expected to do 20 'fags' or acts of service, a week. Each new boy is asked to do these 'fags' for a prefect who in some cases is in a lower form. The 'fags' are expected to run at the call of a prefect, and the first arrival receives a mark and the others receive no marks. Each boy runs 50 times and is expected to make 20 marks a week...
Died. Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, 64, secretary of the Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office, Prefect of the Congregation of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, famed (1903-14) as Papal Secretary of State; of heart failure after an appendectomy; in Rome. His death leaves 28 Italian, 29 non-Italian Cardinals. He was born in London where his father (later to be Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See) was attached to the Spanish Legation. On his Protestant mother's side he was of English descent, but, true son of his father...