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Lord Grey: " It is most fitting that this memorial should be in Westminster Abbey, the shrine of so much that is great, honorable and dear in our history, which, not so very long ago, as time is reckoned, was as much a part of his ancestry...
...River, Arkansas, implements of a vanished race with arts of weaving and carving. 6) At Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, a great prehistoric com- munity dwelling, by the National Geographic Society, under Neil M. Judd. 7) At Mesa Verde National Park and the Rio Mimbres valley, New Mexico, a pipe shrine house, traces of a dice game, and other cliff-dwelling relics, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Smithsonian Institution. 8) In mounds at Albany, Ore., remains which indicate, in the belief of Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, of the University of Oregon, that the American aborigines, following the coast southward...
...Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, President Harding made an address in which he said...
...present these documents are stored in a steel vault with a double glass front in the library of the State Department. The last session of Congress appropriated $12,000 to transport the two most famous state papers in the history of the United States to a marble and glass shrine which will be placed in the main hall of the Library...
...modern systems, of lighting have come into use, however, such a necessity has been removed and there seems to be no reason for forfeiting the precious hours of the morning to lectures and classes. The student is required to spend his fresh, vigorous hours trudging on daily pilgrimages from shrine to shrine, bowing for fifty-three minute intervals before this diety or that and scribbling hieroglyphs which are to be deciphered and interpreted at some future date. Then he is encouraged to consume a large part of the afternoon in the strenuous activity of athletics. After that, in the evening...