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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Definite plans for excursions have already been made at the University of Grenoble. Four automobile trips will be taken through the Alpine roads and three railway trips to the important towns in the section. All men who have attended universities outside of Paris will have an eight-day stay there just before their return to the United States about September...
...some of the following things. They have built, run, and supported for almost ten years a summer dispensary, with school and clubhouse, and have given fine service in a fast motorboat over fifty miles of coast at Spotted Islands on the north coast of Labrador. They have helped that section of our people in a thousand ways, materially, mentally, spiritually. This work began by one Williams man going down at his own expense for a summer. He is in China...
Some have asserted that this achievement would serve to abolish the fundamental principle of all chemistry--the indivisibility of atoms--and as Dr. Paul N. Leech of the Chicago section of the Chemical Society said, in commenting on the paper, "It does actually blast the theory that the atoms of elements, supposed to be absolutely indestructible, cannot be broken up by man." But as far as the actual usefulness of the atomic theory for all practical purposes is concerned, the discovery does not affect it in the slightest, according to a statement made to a CRIMSON reporter last night...
...Beirut the conditions are more normal since this section of territory is under French control and so is in a better condition to make use of the educational advantages offered. The colleges are non-secretarian and are patronized by all classes of political and social believers. The object is to train leaders in all walks of life to work among their own people. The work which is carried on wholly in English includes courses in Arts and Sciences, Commerce, Engineering, and Medicine...
...opera "The Love for the Three Oranges" and two piano concertos, due to the unfavorable condition of Russian music publishing houses. In Paris his reputation ranks with that of Strawinsky, and his "Song Without Words" written for Mme. Koshetz seems to bear this statement out. In the weird middle section with its dissonant rustling of strings, which would tax the pitch of any singer, the voice rang true. The Moussorgsky "Dance and Revery" from "The Fair of Sorotchinsk" was sung with great dash and vigor, although Liadow's orchestration was ineffective. The orchestral accompaniment of these songs, through no fault...