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Plans for the tour are the result of three years' effort by Comtesses Alain de Pierreien to establish international study tours for University students. Comtesse de Pierreien has sought support in the United States and abroad for a round-the-world tour, to which each country would contribute gifted students, but the project was called off on account...
Charles Wilkes was not the first to find antarctic land-that had been done 20 years earlier by Nathaniel Brown Palmer, a Connecticut sealing captain-but he was the first to make enough landfalls to establish an Antarctic Continent. After the War of 1812, whaling and sealing began to spread into the Antarctic Ocean, and the New England skippers asked the Government for information and charts. Congress approved a naval expedition, settled its command on Lieut. Charles Wilkes, a scholarly, hot-tempered, opinionated martinet...
...Establish a League of American nations...
Chief result of the Balkan Entente's meeting last month was to establish Turkey as the strong man of a none-too-solid Balkan bloc (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week Turkey's Foreign Minister, shrewd Shokru Saracoglu, was back in Ankara after a trip to Sofia of which he said: "The Bulgarian Government now fully shares the Entente view that at this moment the general interests transcend any particular interests." In an interview with Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times, Foreign Minister Saracoglu took pains to point out that, whereas Turkey...
...offered to establish at Yale (to which he had already given a new dramatic school and theatre; the famed Harkness Memorial Quadrangle was the gift of his mother) a house plan similar to those at Oxford and Cambridge. Yale declined the offer. Mr. Harkness then went to Harvard, gave grateful President A. Lawrence Lowell $11,392,000 to establish a house plan there. When Yale changed its mind, decided it wanted a house plan, too, Mr. Harkness forgave its original rebuff, gave it $12,000,000. For similar plans he gave Lawrenceville School $3,000,000, Phillips Exeter...