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Observers at Cherbourg last week watched the faces of French dock-hands, porters, innkeepers, thronging citizens. Yes, as the singing, shouting legionaries landed, with their tin hats now replaced by straws, their packs by suitcases, their guns by canes, cigars, toy horns, the faces of Cherbourg smiled genuinely, the faces of Cherbourg grinned, laughed aloud, yelled a welcome...
...citizens know that "E.P." stands for "Edward, Prince," fewer still recall that the Province of Alberta was named after Edward's great-grandfather, the Prince Consort Albert; and very few persons indeed realize that the "E. P." Ranch is not a princeling's toy but a strictly paying livestock investment...
...hundred and eight guns boomed, at Peking last week in terrific salute. At the Hall of Ceremonies, an imposing structure on a tiny island in the middle of a toy lake, hundreds of Chinese officers and diplomats prostrated themselves thrice. A Chinese band struck up the national anthem-to Western ears shrill and squealing. At the focus of this orgy of homage stood a slim, imperious Chinese, clad from neck to heel in a gorgeous, shimmering, blue silk Field Marshal's uniform of his own invention. This personage was the War Lord of Manchuria and North China, the great...
This Constitution does, however, in spite of the fallacies which to the observer appear sufficiently perilous to condone its partial rejection, serve as a test case for the whole theory of student government. Heretofore in most colleges the Student Council has been a pretty toy, an honorary roll of prominent undergraduates, the efficiency of which is subjugated to its glory. If adopted at Princeton and enforced with the rigidity which in its present form it seems to demand, the system will cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily...
Gawking tourists did not notice the King-Emperor when he returned from his ride. They were assembled with a guide-lecturer who was, for once, not lecturing. Popeyed, they watched a lad of four years parade about the Castle courtyard shouldering a toy wooden gun. He, whispered the lecturer, was George Henry Hubert Las-celles, eldest son of Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles, and eldest grandson of the King-Emperor. While Master Hubert strutted, His Majesty descended from his mare and passed unnoticed within...