Word: takahira
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...annual dinner of the Harvard Cosmopolitan Club will be held this evening in the Assembly Room of the Union at 7 o'clock. President Eliot, Baron Takahira, the Japanese ambassador, and Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, will be the guests of honor. The dinner is distinctly a dinner for the club, and no undergraduates except the members have been invited...
...Peace and Education"--Baron Takahira...
...second annual dinner of the East Asiatic Society of Boston was held last evening at the Algonquin Club. About ninety members and guests were present to honor Baron Takahira, the Japanese ambassador, who was the guest of honor...
Just before the dinner, at the house of Mr. C. S. Hamlin '83, President Eliot received the Order of the Rising Sun from Baron Takahira. The presentation of the decoration was made privately, only a few friends being present. As the President entered the room, the Japanese envoy made the following speech, which President Eliot read at the dinner: "The Emperor, my august sovereign, fully appreciative of the great services you have rendered for the welfare of human life as one of the foremost educators of the age, and for the making of many useful men of Japan who have...
...Japanese ambassador was the next speaker whom Mr. Wheelock called upon. Baron Takahira, as he rose, was greeted by his countrymen with the national "Banzai." After apologizing for his poor command of English and explaining his position as ambassador, he spoke of the happy relations between the two countries. The recent "warscare" with Japan, he said, was due entirely to the reports which the press had circulated on insufficient authority. "Journalism would be more appreciated if it were possible for it to work in harmony with diplomacy." The recent visit of the feet to Japan was thought by many...