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...House of Ussher. H. V. Esmond, an English actor, wrote and performed this piece for London and died in the part. This was some time ago, and the play as currently revealed suffers slightly from the passage of time. It is about inter-racial marriage, a subject on which views have changed so radically of late. The old Jewish father in the play is intent on dissuading his daughter from her intended marriage to a wholly eligible gentile. He finds, however, that she has been visiting the young man of nights and ferociously changes his opinion...
...Clarence D. Ussher told of his experiences before and during the siege of Van at the last meeting of the Graduate Schools Society in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House last night. Dr. Ussher was a medical missionary in the city of Van, the ancient capitol of Armenia, when the war broke...
Several years before the war, according to Dr. Ussher, the Turks, urged forward by German influence, had sent 32 regiments to Van in order to carry out a great massacre of the Christians, and the fear of this massacre became so great that the Americans in Turkey persuaded the United States to intervene and Russia was requested by the United States to take charge of our interests in Eastern Turkey. Russia at once sent an army within striking distance of Van. In order to make it possible to transport the cannon and supplies over the deep snow carpets were collected...
...Ussher was in Jerusalem, and while there he went through a German "Inn for Pilgrims" which is very strategically situated on the Mount of Olives. He was surprised to learn that there were cannon in the basement and was told that the palatial "Inn" would be the headquarters of the first German governor of Palestine and after that would be occupied by the Kaiser when he was supervising the government of that section of his dominions...
...Graduate Schools Society will hold its last meeting of the year in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, tonight at 7.30 o'clock, when Dr. Clarence D. Usser, formerly of Van, Turkey, will speak on his experiences before and during the siege of Van. Dr. Ussher was the only doctor there when the Turks massacred, in the spring of 1915, 55,000 Armenians in Asiatic Turkey...