Word: ambassador
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Ethan Allen Hitchcock, "Merchant, president of industrial corporations, ambassador to Russia, and since 1899 Secretary of the Interior; an upright, influential man of business, and a fearless and patriotic public servant...
...Modern Language Club and the Alliance Francais celebrated the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Pierre Corneille, the great French author and dramatist, last Wednesday night with great success. M. Jusserand, the French ambassador at Washington, opened the program with a brief address. Professor R. L. Sanderson then spoke in French on the life and works of Corneille. Immediately after this the French Club presented Corneille's great tragedy...
...Gailor of Tennessee spoke on the subject "Is Christianity the Only Absolute Religion," and Mr. Robert E. Speer discussed the question "Are non-Christian Religions Adequate to Meet the Needs of Men?" The meeting of greatest general interest was that of Friday evening, when the speakers were the British Ambassador, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Hon. John W. Foster, ex-Secretary of State, Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and Hon. J. A. Macdonald, editor of the Toronto Globe...
Among the speakers at the convention will be the following: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador; Bishop J. M. Thoourn, of India; Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Robert E. Speer and John R. Mott, of New York; Sir Algernon Coote, President Hibernian Missionary Society; Hon. S. B. Capen, President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Bishops Galloway, of Mississippi and McDowell, of Chicago; Mr. Robert R. Gailey, of Tientsin, China; and Dr. Karl Fries, Chairman World's Student Christian Federation, Stockholm, Sweden...
...Library has lately received word from the Hon. Bellamy Storer '67, American Ambassador to Austria, that the Austrian Government is to present to the Library a set of the Debates of the Austrian Parliament; those of the House of Representatives extending from 1873 down to the beginning of the present Parliament, and those of the House of Lords from 1891. This set of books will be a valuable companion to the Proceedings of the German Reichsrath, which were received from the German Government early in the fall...