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...tall Briton, whose air of habitual command betrayed his lineage, arrived last week at Bombay, India. Some weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name...
...foot of slush which the Alaskan churned high in the air as she shot forward. Lifting slowly but easily, she circled to a height of 1,000 feet over the landing field, then squared off north-by-west for Point Barrow, northernmost settlement on this continent, where her commander, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, wished to deposit supplies before asking her to carry him over the Arctic seas. About noon, Fairbanks reported a radio from Captain Wilkins saying he had sighted Point Barrow. That meant that the Alaskan was soaring over the great triangular tundra, about the size of Texas, north...
...present time, when organized religion has ceased to command the allegiance of large numbers of students, it becomes urgently necessary that the college teach the business of life in all its aspects. In view of the current conflict between religion and science, a general knowledge of philosophy is equally important to the educated men as a general knowledge of science. The committee recommends, therefore, that a course in Philosophy be made a requirement for distribution without the alternative of Mathematics...
...present time when organized religion has ceased to command the allegiance of a large number of students, it becomes urgently necessary that the college teach the business of life in all its aspects. The committee recommends, therefore, that a course in Philosophy be made a requirement for distinction without the alternative of Mathematics...
General Artemas Ward was a man of parts. Not only was he nominally in command of the Massachusetts troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but he was also prominent in the political life, first of the Commonwealth, and finally, toward the latter part of his life, of the nation...