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...advance sale of tickets indicates that the newly decorated Louis XIV room at the Somerset will be thronged by many Harvards and Dartmouths choosing this occasion to relax...
...banks of the Charles can be distinguished a group of houses (which may be the first known view of Harvard!) with the explanation: "Cambridge, bourgade de 80 maisons. C'est une universite." This succinct comment probably represents all that was known about Harvard in the dominions of Louis XIV. How far that little candle (to quote Shakespeare and Mr. Curley) now throws its beams can be judged from a perusal of this collection of studies. We are reminded of the contributions of Professor W. M. Davis of Harvard to the study of Physiography in France, of the influence...
...Austrians, proudly celebrating the same anniversary in Vienna last week, this was a cruel cut. Eugene of Savoy, neither German nor Austrian, was born in France and raised in Louis XIV's court. Louis despised Eugene's big-nostriled face, crooked little frame, cold, dogged stare.' refused him a French commission. Eugene at 20 helped the Austrians turn back one of the last Turkish offensives in Europe and remained to become, at 34, Austrian Imperial Field Marshal. Allied with Britain's Marlborough and with the Germans, Eugene thoroughly spanked the armies of his onetime sovereign...
...German garrison towns was read a proclamation setting forth, on the 200th anniversary of the death of great Prince Eugene of Savoy, that Eugene was a Pan-German hero who had saved Germany from the "predatory greed" and "plundering, burning and murdering armies" of France's Louis XIV...
...Government. When they read its proclamation they abruptly changed their minds. Like Hitler and like Stalin, dictatorial Franco spoke of his gang as constituting "The Revolution" and announced that it is the State. In 1936 this has become the usual crude variant of Louis XIV's elegant platitude, L'etat c'est moi. Immediately the Peace Conference gave fledgling Dictator Franco a deep nudge in the ribs by intimating that they had previously intended to recognize his Government because they had understood it was going to be democratic...