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Ismet, a man of medium build, hard, clad in a tight uniform bespread with medals, seemed last week to retain unaltered the Prussian severity which he acquired some 20 years ago as a cadet at Potsdam. He is now Premier of the Turkish Republic, after fighting through the World War, repeatedly decorated by Wilhelm II for his often victorious services to the Central Powers. Today his hair is growing white, but his eyes are still a keen, steel grey; and, still deaf, he continues to play the little trick of seeming deafer than he is when that suits his purpose...
...first report of the Committee on Relations with the Alumni, appointed by the Board of Overseers in February, 1923, has just been published and sets forth its activities during the four years of its existence. In this time the Committee has acted as the medium between the University and the graduates and has taken steps to facilitate such relations in the future by recommending that an official bulletin of information be published by the University and distributed without charge three or four times annually to each graduate...
...good old days" with a present which is doing its best to communicate with him. That deep-rooted interest which graduates take in their university is a matter outside the ken of the undergraduate; but he has every reason to be grateful that after graduation there will be a medium through which not only will the University be able to speak to him, but he will be able to speak, if he so desire...
...What we dream of being able to do is to lay hands on the library of some average Roman of medium culture. That would give us a wonderful insight into Latin literature of that time. It is not impossible that we might even find the text of some Latin popular comedies, which are known to have existed but which have never been found...
...Austen, cool, said: "I do not feel it my duty as apparently the Honorable Member does, to doubt the word of British representatives in China." Up and down England the fact was apparent that British news from China is becoming a medium for political manipulation and strife...