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...Chita one informed me," he says in my rough-and-ready translation, "of a community of learned men hidden in the mountain fastnesses. Their abode, perched on one of the lofty peaks in the snow-clad Andes, is almost inaccessible to hostile philistines. There, amidst the glorious inspiration of rugged mountains and tropical valleys, they ply their brains in perfect isolation, their climate equable for work, their minds bent on the sole task of learning and teaching. Parents from all parts of the Empire, from Lake Titicaca on one hand to Gar-liccodor in the South, at great sacrifice...
...huge indemnity. Would she not leap at a chance to cancel it? Moral influence would be no deterrent; and furthermore Germany's desire for world domination is not gone, nor is it dormant. So evident is it, that in the minds of men of closest perception working amidst the Germans over there is the almost universal conviction that the war ended three months too soon. Germany made the War in an attempt for world domination and she still keeps that ambition in her mind, and adds to it according to some inexplicable philosophizing, a further incentive of revenge...
...defeat of Venizelos makes a return-of anyone of his party inconceivable. On the other hand, the royalist party is hesitating in its plan for the triumphal entry of ex-King Constantine. There was something ominous in the report that Constantine's valets brought the royal trunks to Athens amidst great rejoicing just as the French ambassador was packing his so as to-be prepared for the arrival of the ex-King. No doubt remains as to the position of the three great European powers with the publishing of the note warning that "restoration of the throne of Greece...
...with amazement and with a sense of incredulity that we learned that an open advocate of Bolshevism, who recently at the Tremont Temple enthusiastically advanced, amidst cheers, all the tenets of Messrs Trotzy and Lenine, namely, Mr. Wilfred Humphries, addressed a student audience in Emerson Hall on Wednesday evening...
Approximately 3200 persons filled Symphony Hall last evening to its fullest capacity for three and a half intense hours while President Lowell debated against Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71 on the League of Nations. The two speakers came on the platform a few minutes after eight o'clock, amidst great applause. Governor Calvin Coolidge was the presiding officer...