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...clock Military Science 1 Secs. 1, 2, 3, Major Wogen Memorial Hall Secs. 4, 5, 6, Major Daly New Lect. Hall Military Science 2 Secs. 1, 2 Emerson J. Secs. 3, 4 Emerson D Military Science 3 New Lect. Hall Military Science 4 Emerson D THURSDAY, JUNE 3 (XIV) Celtic 3hf Sever 18 Chemistry 7 Emerson J Chemistry 14a hf Emerson F Chinese 3 Emerson F Comp. Literature 10 Harvard 5 Comp. Literature 11 Harvard 5, 6 English 35a Emerson D Memorial Hall English 76 Harvard 2 French 10 Sever 5 Geology 12 Geol. Mus. 40 Government 13b Emerson...
There are now only three such museums in the world: Louis XIV founded the Chalcographie du Louvre to preserve in etchings the military and festal splendors of his reign; the Regia Calcografia, founded in Rome by Pope Clement XII, contains 15,000 plates; at the Calcografia Nacional, in Madrid, you can buy a Goya* print for a peseta...
Soon a broad avenue at Versailles, along which rumbled once the vast golden coach in which Louis XIV sometimes dined, will be known as "Rue Rockefeller." Members of the Versailles Municipal Council grateful to Mr. John D. Rockefeller for his gift of $1,000,000 (TIME, June 9, 1924) to restore the Chateau of Versailles, decided thus to honor him last week...
...cross upside down in his left hand, then performs backward the usual ceremony. The chalice is first filled with wine and then with water. The mock priest, symbolizing Satan, then eats the bread and tramples on the cross. When several persons participate, a general orgy usually follows. Louis XIV, when he celebrated the Black Mass, is said to have committed the supreme blasphemy of resting the chalice on the body of a naked woman instead of upon the altar...
...excessively famed species of tapestry created in the 16th Century by the Gobelin family and manufactured by the State since the days of Louis XIV. Its production requires such extreme skill and care that the most experienced workman can turn out only a few square feet a year, naturally at a price eclipsing that of all but the most valuable oil paintings. The Gobelins, originally a family of dyers from Reims, were able to purchase patents of nobility through the sale of their tapestries and are not mentioned as artisans later than the 17th Century...