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...fact that during his tenure of the Ambassadorship to Germany Mr. Houghton achieved a notable reputation for discretion and even for a certain taciturnity. He knows the political ropes well, having been twice a Congressman and twice a presidential elector. As a Harvard man with an added background of post graduate work at Paris, Berlin and Gottingen, he is no blundering shirtsleeved unsophisticate. Therefore considerable interest was aroused by a rumor that his speech to the press was made at the direct instigation of the President...
...year by the Reverend Richard Roberts, minister of the American Presbyterian Church in Montreal. The general subjects of the lectures will be "The Divine Grace and the Divine Society." The specific subject, dates, and places, where they will be held, follow: April 6. "Man and His Society--the Biological Background," in Emerson D at 8 o'clock; April 7, "The New Man and the New Society--the New Testament Position," in Andover Chapel at 3.30 o'clock; April 8, "Freedom and Fellowship--the Present Problem, its Historical Origins, and its Solution, if any," in Andover Chapel at 3.30 o'clock...
...Circle loses by parading in a false and scaffolded plot a problem which has its roots in bigotry. The first act of the latter suffers immeasurably in consequence. From start to finish of the act there is talky-talk of the most stagey, witless sort, written to unfold the background of the play...
Mexico provided Maximilian with a background of nice contrasts; Renaissance Italy did as much for sculpture. And at noon, in the Music Building, twentieth century America will furnish the screen before which Professor Hill will parade selections from Chopin...
...continuum of events,' says Einstein, 'exists as a background for phenomena, and when happenings occur in any region whatsoever the events are there ready to give forth their testimony'--but all to no avail if there are no minds there ready to receive the testimony and add it to the individual continuum...