Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senators and Deputies continued to sit in solemn silence until the icy atmosphere of the two Houses of Parliament caused them to stand up and march forth into the sunshine...
Sitting in solemn silence, the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, heard the reading of a telegram from Premier Herriot, who was in London attending the Premiers' Conference (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Christiania, Norway, the International Federation of University Women finished its Convention in the Grand Hall of Christiania University; the visiting educators set forth for their 19 respective countries. During their stay, the women had marched in solemn procession through the streets, to be welcomed at the Grand Hall as guests of the Norwegian Government; had been addressed on individual morals in politics by Fridtjof Nansen, famed explorer, scientist, statesman, author; had elected, as President of their Congress, Virginia Gildersleeve,* Dean of Barnard College, Manhattan; had resolved to collect a $1,000,000 fund for international fellowships for university women...
...over the Tyrrhenian sea, whose treacherous waters were the poet's grave. The site is not precisely the part of the shore where his body was found, but a much finer one, a mile or so north, where the rugged marble mountains of Carrara furnish a lofty, solemn background. The sculptor, Fontana, has already achieved distinction in works of impressive size-notably in the Garibaldi at Sarzana, and the newly erected Quadriga at Rome. Said Fontana: "We, too, claim some share in Shelley's memory. He lived and died among us. Prometheus has, I suppose haunted most sculptors...
...University College, London, 400 delegates met for the Triennial Imperial Education Conference. Represented were all the lands of the British Empire. Solemn sessions were held for five days, much was discussed. Chief attention was given to experiment and new development in education−a day to "the newest methods in the training of teachers," a day to the Dalton System (mode of secondary education, perfected by Miss Parkhurst of Dalton, Mass.). Eminent literary men delivered addresses on "English as a Bond of Empire." At one of the sessions, Alfred Noyes, poet and former lecturer at Princeton University, presided...