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...oath of allegiance to his future mother-in-law, Queen Wilhelmina, was sworn on the Parade Ground at The Hague last week by German and Nazi Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, handsomely accoutered as a Dutch hussar. His Highness was made simultaneously a Navy lieutenant and an Army captain, while his fiancee, Crown Princess Juliana, and her mother the Queen proudly watched...
...show a portion of these publicly. On exhibit in the Hochschild architecture gallery were four microscopically exact models, made by unemployed architects under the Architects' Emergency Committee, of Manhattan buildings important in the development of U. S. architecture: cupolaed Federal Hall, on whose balcony George Washington took his oath of office as President; the brownstone St. John's Chapel; Hamilton Grange, a typical Manhattan country house of 1800; Fraunces' Tavern, still standing, the headquarters of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York...
...that it knows about. Perhaps not quite as important a function, but certainly one that cannot be overlooked, is that exercised by the editorial columns in reflecting student opinion. If this is to be stifled and strangled by bigoty and short-sightedness of the type that fostered the Teachers Oath Bill in Massachusetts; if the members of one of the country's large universities--most of whom, it was found in a poll, were over the age of twenty-one--are not considered capable or worthy of speaking their minds, then it is time to bring out into the open...
Originally the Provisional President of this regime was white-bearded General Miguel Cabanellas, but on the 76th day of the war he administered the oath of President to Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the White Armies. These are a small, professional force assisted by some German and Italian aviation and supplies. Up to last week they had occupied 28 of the 50 provinces of Spain. Although everywhere outnumbered hundreds to one by the Spanish proletariat, they had not up to this week been ousted by popular uprising from any important area which they have occupied. Of the 68 branches...
...quite out of keeping with the spirit abroad in the world today. For it takes a tremendous force to rouse Harvard men to the core, and thrills such as the trumpet call of the Further War Veterans and the more serious mood which drew men to the Teacher's Oath hearing only show that Harvard's own toes must be trod on before screams will issue forth from the student body. In many respects it is in the tendency to mind their own business and not concern themselves with the affairs of others that Harvard men differ from the average...