Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work of the School of Paris from 1910 to 1928 constituting the second exhibition of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and intended to supplement the current French exhibition at the Fogg Museum is to be on public view in the Harvard Cooperative Building, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue starting this morning. Yesterday and Monday there were private showings for the members of the organization...
...mutilated Hungary were omitted. This shows that the United States was the first power to discover that, as Professor Langer points out, "in the peace settlements of 1919 the principle of national self-determination was applied in an imperfect way to the problem of territorial readjustment and in view of the vaguenes of national frontiers a settlement of entirely satisfactory character was out of the question" and further that "the great weakness of the peace settlement was not that it had not solved this question but that it had not followed the principle of self-determination as far as possible...
...lukewarm attitude of the press in giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...
...loth Century Japanese diary. Sei Shonagon was in the service of Empress Sadako at the elaborate court of Heian. Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance view of a lady's writing. On scented rice-paper Shonagon traced her delicate characters, decorating her "poems" with puns and symbols, word play and subtle metaphors. Her diary is less fancy and more amusing than her verse. She divided experience into "Disagreeable Things," "Very Tiresome Things," "Deceptive Things." Under...
...from March 30 to July 3, 1867. On July 8 a question was raised as to the status of a bill which the President had declined to sign during this interim. Rep. Eliot of Mass. suggested that it had become a law. But no member rose to share his view, and the House, recognizing that it was not a law, resolved that it be reenrolled and resubmitted. The Senate discussed the question but took no action. Senator Trumbull declared: "If we were not in session, and by our adjournment prevented its return, then...