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...Likeness to the Holy Alliance. "A hundred years ago there existed a league of nations in Europe, the Holy Alliance, which finally came under the control of the cunning and able master of secret diplomacy, Metternich, of Austria. . . . Metternich, finally in absolute control of the league of nations of that day, definitely announced its policy no different from the policy now announced by our Government. Revolution by a long suffering people in Piedmont Metternich ruthlessly stamped out with the armed forces of his league...
Eddie Cantor is, of course, the master of ceremonies. He is inordinately funny. The only criticism brought against him was that his virtually permanent possession of the stage made a monotony of merriment...
Bacon. The 300th anniversary was fittingly observed of the publication of the Novum Organum, the master work of Sir Francis Bacon (1561- 1626), who, while not a great investigator himself, laid the foundation of modern scientific research by his insight into the true spirit and method of science. Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, of Smith College, Dr. Mark Liddell, of Purdue University, and other scientific historians paid tribute to Lord Bacon's vast influence over subsequent thought...
...Temporary Husband. Sidney Chaplin, brother of the sovereign Charlie, makes an excellent comic butler. He assists his master to marry the heroine by the insidious device of disguising him in a luxuriant growth of false whiskers and substituting him at the hour of the ceremony for the aged gentleman she intended to marry...
...bequest of 20 etchings by-the French master-Meryon, was received from Joseph Benson Marvin Jr. of the Class of 1906. These impressions are all of fine quality and several of them are printed on green paper which renders them all the more valuable to collectors...