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...Knights of the Grand Cross of The Most Honorable Order of The Bath, created in 1399 by Henry IV. The ceremony takes place on the installation of new Knights. Ten Knights (Earl Beatty, Earl Haig, Earl of Ypres, Lord Southborough, Lord Chalmers, General Sir William Mackinnon, Sir George Buchanan, Viscount Esher, Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Lord Stamfordham) in plumed caps, wondrously colored robes, wearing massive gold chains and bejeweled stars, offered their swords to the Dean of West minster, and made the vow to "Love the King. Defend him and his right; defend maidens, widows and orphans in their rights. Suffer...
...however, that the Premier would remain in office until June 4, when the State celebration of Crown Prince Hirohito's wedding* (TIME, April 7) will have been held. Upon this date the Diet assembles and Kiyoura Government is expected to resign. The next Premier is likely to be Viscount Takaaki Kato†, four times Foreign Minister (1900-01, 1906, 1913, 1914-15), former Japanese Ambassador to Britain (1894-99) and leader of the Kenseikai Party, which will be the largest party in the new House of Representatives. The new Foreign Minister is likely to be either Baron Shidehara...
...Viscount Knebworth, Oxford, son of the Earl of Lytton, knocked out his London University opponent in a welterweight competition. This was taken to prove that the young peerage is not entirely useless...
...instructors?the late James Viscount Bryce; Tomass'o Tittoni, former Premier of Italy; Count Teleki, former Premier of Hungary; Frank W. Taussig, Harvardeconomist; A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard President; Michael I. Pupin, inventor; John H. Latane, Johns Hopkins Dean; the Earl of Birkenhead (F. E. Smith...
...dilemma which haunted educators of the last decade: knowledge of Latin and Greek is too valuable a heritage of civilization to be lost, but an enforced study destroys the "sweetness and light" of this ancient learning. It might prove Cassandra-like to herald a revival of the Viscount's assertion that "the case for making Latin the normal groundwork of a liberal education is overwhelming" is no longer resented as an unwarranted bit of pedagogy...