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CHARLES FRANCIS CHOATE, JR., of Massachusetts, regent Smithsonian Institution...
Hirohito, Prince Regent of Japan, celebrated his marriage to the Princess Nagako (TIME, Feb. 4) by starting a mustache. Court circles politely refer to it as the Regent's mustache, but so far it consists of only a few silky hairs. Their intense blackness makes them almost visible and the imperial barber is eager for the moment when there will be sufficient foundation for an application...
...spring regatta will be held as usual this year, with the Regent's and Carroll's cup, together with medals, offered as awards. These races, which include wherry, compromise, Novice, Junior, and Senior Singles, and double scullings events, will be for the University championships. Last year over 100 men participated in this regatta, which is one of the most important events in the spring crew season...
...modern fiction. And lest the tradition of his baffling incomprehensibility be momentarily forgotten there arrives the news that Crown Prince Hirohito has be-stowed the high noble and hereditary title of count upon one Hasakura, dead these past three hundred years. By one command of the mighty Regent the mouldering ambassador" and his entombed descendants rise from their plebeian ashes to trail the clouds of their new nobility. The only parallel in the Western World is the tri-centennial crowning of Bacon with the laurels of Shakespeare...
...Prince Regent Hirohito and Crown Princess Nagako (TiME, Feb. 4) left Tokyo for a week's honeymoon...