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...university. Bishop Anderson's answering plea for a sympathetic trial of the president-elect was criticised Wednesday by a prominent Bostonian, Charles K. Bolton of the Athenaeum, as leaving the main issue untouched. He suggested that the Boston public, more than once appealed to for financial support may well object to an unbroken line of Methodist clergymen at the head of such an institution, and asked whether a man's usefulness as a Methodist pastor in Pittsburgh was "in itself a sufficient qualification to make him the head of a great university in a city with which...
...Trevise is president of a famous art society organized under the patronage of the President of the French Republic in June, 1921. The society is called "La Sauvegarde de L'Art Francais" and its object is to assist in the protection of public art treasures in France...
...unsavory mistress of Michel, drunken leader of drunks. The curtain rises upon a chapel lit by a rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when Michel enters. This brutal lover suggests stealing the cross from dead Agnes' breast. To prevent such blasphemy, Toinette rings the convent bell. Michel stops her and she cries out, "I'm done for." Contrast this with...
...Mayas were a city dwelling people and the peninsula of Yucatan was once densely populated. Many great cities are known to have existed. In them impressive architecture, painting and sculpture, together with inscriptions and writings dealing with scientific work, have been found. Dr. Spinden reports that the primary object of this expedition is to obtain accurate maps and photographs of the ruins as they now exist. The field of exploration is as yet so little known that no excavation can even be attempted...
HILDA YOUNT ERTEL Williamsport, Pa. TIME regrets that the use of "it" should injure the feelings of a parent. Webster's International Dictionary seems to furnish plenty of authority when it says: "It is now used only of an inanimate object or of an animate one in which sex is disregarded...