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...Makeup", and "An Outline of Newspaper Routine", for, without being too highly technical, they answer many of his questions about the how and the why of the profession that makes possible the reading at his breakfast table every morning of the latest reports from Washington and Wales, Tokio and Thibet, Somerville and South Africa...
This settlement of the grievance between Russia and Great Britain will slacken for a time the tension along the long Asia frontier, reaching from Mesopotamia to Thibet, Burmah and the Malay States. A bugaboo in the shape of a Russo-Japanese alliance fostered by acquiescent China, and drilled by distant Germany, may have enough reality to alarm the farsighted. In the meantime the British naval base at Singapore is being built; the Russo-Japanese danger can be faced when it arises...
...across none that possessed the inherent power and strength and fascination of this strange tale. Dr. Ossendowski, a Polish professor formerly holding an important official scientific position in Russia, was caught by the Revolution: fied in winter Eastward through Siberia; struck South across Inner and Outer Mongolia and into Thibet; retraced his steps, skirted--the Desert of Gobi, and finally reached Urga, the city of the Living Buddha. From Urga, which was also serving at the time as headquarters for Baron Ungern's campaign to stir up the ancient race of Jenghis Khan against the Bolsheviki, he made...
...Associated Harvard Engineers and of the Harvard Engineering Society will be held in the Union next Wednesday at 6.30 o'clock. Professor J. F. King, of Columbia University, will speak on "Mountaineering in the Far West," and Dr. S. H. Chuan, formerly physician to the Chinese minister at Thibet, on "A Glimpse of Thibet." Tickets for the dinner, which will be entirely informal, are $1.50 each and may be obtained at Pierce 222. All men taking engineering courses are invited...
...offered in 1914. The exhibit and talk this afternoon should prove valuable for all who are thinking of taking this half-course; and for those who are not, they offer one of the few opportunities to gain some insight and appreciation of the significance of the art of Thibet, China, and Japan...