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Having inspected the Spanish land defenses, General Primo Rivera retired to the battleship Alfonso XIII, in Alhucemas Bay; and from thence issued peans of praise, in honor of General Saro and Fernandez Perez, who commanded the actual Spanish advance. Cried Primo, triumphant: "From now on there will be much war-If the rebels desire peace it will be they who ask for it. . . .Soon I shall be back in Madrid...
...best products of the Gauls. It resisted all invasions, inasmuch as, in the Dark Ages, charters included Roquefort cheeses in the tributes to be annually contributed to the stores of feudal lords. Other charters of Charles VI and VII and letters patent of Francis I and Louis XIII solemnly ruled that Roquefort cheese must be made with sheep's milk and aged in the natural grottos of Roquefort...
...Alencon, a provincial town to the south of Lisieux. At the age of 16 -that was in 1889 -she decided to join the Carmelite Order, but was rejected because of her extreme youth. Taken on a visit to Rome, she threw herself at the feet of Pope Leo XIII, "the greatest of modern Popes," imploring him to sweep away the barriers which prevented her becoming...
...Philosophy 15 Emerson D Physics 5 Emerson A Phychology 10 Emerson A Social Ethics 28 Emerson A Social Ethics 29 Emerson D Zoology 7e Botan. Mus. 26 2 P. M. Chemistry 14c Harvard 6 English 1 New Lect. Hall Harvard 6 Spanish 1 hf. Harvard 6 FRIDAY, JUNE 5 (XIII) Anthropology 2 Peabody Mus. Astronomy 2b Astron, Lab, Chemistry 8 Sever 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 Chemistry 28 Emerson F Class. Archaeology 1b Sever 30 Comp. Literature 35 Emerson F Economics A Mr. Bober, A, C, F, P New Lect. Hall Mr. Chamberlin, I, K, Q, W Now Lect. Hall...
...Poems. Narratives inform the body of Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled...