Word: royale
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Professor C. R. Lanman has recently been elected an honorary member of the Societe Asiatique of Paris, which was founded in 1821, and has an honorary membership of 29. He has also been elected to the Royal Society of Sciences of Gottingen, Prussia, founded in 1751. Four other Americans share the same honor: Mr. A. Agassiz '55, Professor C. Gross h.'01, Professor S. Newcomb '58, of Washington, and Professor Penfield, of Yale...
From 1884 to 1901, Professor Kuhnemann was Privatdozent at the University of Marburg, and in 1901 he was made Professor Extraordinarius. In 1903 he was called to Bonn, and in the same year he was charged by the Prussian Government with organizing the newly founded Royal Academy at Posen, a task which he fulfilled with singular success. In the autumn of 1905, he was sent by his government on a lecturing tour through the United States, during which he spoke to audiences in most of the important cities and universities...
...fourth century, B.C., the field inside the Stadium will be used. Fronting the spectators, a simple structure representing the palace at Argos will be erected. This palace will serve also as a sounding-board for a space presenting very difficult acoustic conditions. On either side of the royal palace will be a passage leading to the orchestra, located between the front row of seats and the palace, which, with it, forms practically a tangent. In this circular space of ground, about 65 feet in diameter, with its periphery marked by an apparent curbstone, the chorus and actors will perform their...
...absence acting as general adviser to the King of Siam, has had conferred upon him by His Majesty the distinguished honor of the Grand Cross of the Order of the White Elephant. This is the highest honor which His Majesty could bestow and is memorable as a mark of royal appreciation of signal services rendered by the general adviser. Among other services Professor Strobel assisted in the final adjustment and conclusion of the Franco-Siamese Convention which has secured to Siam a welcome period of freedom from international difficulties...
...Zwemer has spent 15 years in Arabia, where he became noted as the only white man who has ever crossed the Oman peninsula. The Royal Geographical Society of England recognized the value of his work by electing him a member on the completion of some explorations at Yemen. He is the author of several books descriptive of Arabia and its religion...