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...Viscount Willingdon, Governor General of Canada, and Viscountess Willingdon visited Harvard yesterday. After a luncheon with President and Mrs. Lowell, they were escorted on a tour around the University. On their visit to the Fogg Art Museum, they were entertained by several songs rendered by the University Glee Club, under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison...
Last night Viscount Willingdon expressed to the CRIMSON, through his secretary, the pleasure he found in his Harvard tour. The New Fogg Museum and the work of the singers won his especial praise...
...Capital is still where a plump forefinger placed it; and last week His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, fittingly upheld there the dignity of the Crown by presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...
...Ottawa, Ont., with this letter went the "distinguished citizen" about whom it was written-William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada (TIME, Feb. 14). He lunched with Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, presented his credentials to Governor General Viscount Willingdon, later dined with the Viscount at Rideau Hall, home of Lord and Lady Willingdon. Thus the Dominion greeted its first U. S. Minister, whose actual duties, however, await the official opening of the U. S. legation on July...
...platers" got away in an absolutely clean break after only four minutes at the post. . . . The field strung out. . . . Then, on the home stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then the Willingdon grey topper and the King black topper revolved toward each other in puzzlement. Even with glasses they could not pick the winner. The judges said: "Troutlet...