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When you call him Doctor Butler, you may have in mind any one of the degrees he has received from Columbia, Syracuse, Tulane, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Penn sylvania. Yale. Chicago, St. Andrews, Manchester, Cambridge, Williams, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Toronto, Wesleyan, Glasgow, State of New York, Oxford, Breslau, Strassburg, Nancy, Paris, Louvain, Prague, King's College (N. S.), Rome, Charles (Prague), Szeged (Hungary), Budapest, California.? His first doctorate he took at Columbia at the age of 24, with a dissertation on the History of Logical Doctrine. Making all knowledge his province, he instructed in education and philosophy, became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morningside's Miracle | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...Bucharest last week there were supposed to be three "real reasons" for the peasant Prime Minister's evasive resignation: 1) a split in his own Peasant Party between peasant factions of the "Old Kingdom" and those of such great new provinces added to Rumania after the War as Tran sylvania (Maniu birthplace); 2) successful intrigue by the Rumanian Minister at London, Nicolae Titulescu, through wily henchmen in Bucharest; 3) the anger of King Carol at Dr. Maniu's repeated insistence that His Majesty must not be crowned until Queen Helen becomes reconciled and consents to be crowned with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peasant After Peasant | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...Menjou, dismayed by the prospect of playing in talking films, left Hollywood and went to live in Paris, this picture, which had been written for him, was made over for Maurice Chevalier. A captain of the Guards who marries a Queen finds that his share in the government of Sylvania is limited to what he can do in a boudoir. It is a boldly amorous, decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged handsome scenes? marching grenadiers, palaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Applications for the Indiana and Penn sylvania football games will close at 6 o'clock this evening at the H. A. A. No applications are required for personal occupancy at the Indiana game by holders of H. A. A. books, but all seats at the Pennsylvania game at Franklin Field will be issued on application only, with a $2 discount to owners of H. A. A. books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indiana and Penn Applications Close | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

...69th Congress, and continue to serve through the 70th Congress. Thus, the slim Republican control Of the next Senate is still safe. However, Mr. Redman threatens to fight to unseat Mr. Gould, while at the same time, the Democrats are contesting the seats of Senators-elect Vare of Penn sylvania and Smith of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Maine | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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