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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summoned to appear before onetime Emperor Hsuan T'ung in the Yang Hsin Palace of the Forbidden City. There he was presented with delicate, imperial porcelains and dubbed "Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," traditional title bestowed by the Manchu Emperors on their favorite actors. He was also allowed to retain the title "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" which is derived from the fact that during the T'ang Dynasty court actors called themselves "Disciples of the Pear Orchard" because they performed in a palace bordered with pear trees. Few would deny any title, however lofty...
Until the tunnel train episode in which Harvard students after a hockey game smashed ear windows and did other damage, we regarded them as college "men." Now it would appear that some of them are college "boys...
...entirely new theory of language which seeks to put the "stream of spoken language" on a physical, psychological, and mathematical basis, and to connect it with current theories of relativity, has been advanced by Mr. G. K. Zipf 4G in a thesis which will appear in the present issue of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology...
...interview last night at the Lenox Hotel, Sonja Henie, 17-year-old girl skater from Oslo, Norway, who has won the world's singles title for women four successive times, and who is to appear at the Arena tonight, said she began to practice skating when only seven years old, first on roller skates, and then on the ice. She captured her first championship for fancy skating in 1924 at the age of eleven. Her father, who won the world's bicycle championship in Antwerp in 1893, then took her to Chamonix in France, where she had her first opportunity...
...Economist Dewey's stay in Poland is a series of moving pictures of Russia and Poland. Since he took them himself, he is very proud of them. He likes to run them off, with comments, for friends after dinner. Whenever any of his pretty daughters or smart sons appear on the screen, Economist Dewey cries out: "There's Bud! There's Suzette...