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...Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang Shao-yi was sent to Washington as special Ambassador of the Manchu Emperor. Later he served as Prime Minister of the Government at Peking and as Minister of Finance under the Cantonese Government. He saw his son-in-law, Dr. Wellington Koo, Ambassador at Washington; and today that post is held by his nephew-in-law, Dr. Alfred...
Charge d'Affaires H. Dorsey Newson of the U. S. Legation at Ottawa spoke crisply, last week, to newsgatherers: "The Government of the United States has acquired the property at 98-100-102-104 Wellington Street, Ottawa, for the purpose of constructing a building to house the offices of the various Government departments in the Capital. . . . Upon the termination of existing leases, it is contemplated that the two brick buildings now standing on the property will be removed and a handsome new edifice erected, which may be four or five stories in height...
...change is partially due to pressure from alumni, who have informed the school authorities that while it was all very well for the Duke of Wellington to say that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it is more important now to win the Davis Cup or the Wimbledon championship. Another factor is the deserting of the students themselves from cricket in favor of tennis. Eton will start off with eight hard courts as an experiment...
...last Disraeli overturned Peel, and served in Lord Derby's new Cabinet. But when the Duke of Wellington, very old, very deaf, had the new list of Ministers read to him, he kept interrupting: "Who? Who?" whereupon they became known as the "Who? Who? Cabinet"; and were soon overthrown, Gladstone triumphant...
Reaching Ottawa the next day the men were received at luncheon by the American Minister to Canada Later they were entertained at a tea in Government House by Lord and Lady Wellington McKenzie King, premier of Canada and many other notables. At the concert that evening the singers were again accorded an enthusiastic welcome. Press comment was favorable saying that "if anything is incomparable or unique, it is without an equal. It seems to me that the two words might justly be applied to the Harvard Glee Club, at any rate I have yet to hear its equal though...