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...will be interested to know that the portraits on the new Edward VIII stamps of which TIME [Sept. 14] says "the new stamps have simple, modernistic and almost photographic profile views of Edward VIII which really look like him" have actually been reproduced from a recent photograph of the Sovereign by Hugh Cecil Portraits, Ltd. of London, England...
...lived on not because it had great wealth, for Harvard has been again and again most desperately poor. It has had, of course, no army, no material force of any kind to make it prevail. It has not been the ward of a great sovereign or of a munificent state. Yet Harvard has outlasted all the governments which existed when it was founded, and the social orders through which mankind has moved in three hundred years. It has had only the tradition of learning which its founders carried into the New World from the more ancient universities of Europe...
...later life was a continuing retreat, according to a distinguished friend of the Founder, who said in a public eulogy: "He devoted the remainder of his precious life to a commendable self-review of it; a review for which every wise man, know ing his accountability to a Sovereign Judge, should allot time and make opportunity...
...boarded a train at St. Andrews, N. B. His farewell to Lieut. Governor Murray MacLaren of New Brunswick: "I hope to come back next year even if it is in the role of a private citizen." Next morning in Quebec he was welcomed aboard his train as a visiting sovereign. John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada and the person of His Majesty the King in the Dominion, met the Presidential special, accompanied by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lieut. Governor Esioff Léon Patenaude of Quebec and U. S. Minister Norman Armour. With an escort...
...Victoria of England and at Author Sitwell's sympathy for the sufferings and struggles of the poor. Together with the artful sketches of the celebrities around the Queen, chapters illuminating the social background form the chief distinction of Victoria of England, throwing light on a side of the sovereign's career that Lytton Strachey neglected...