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"A. C. Hanford, Dean"--such is the way that countless formidable-looking bulletins, memoranda, and communiques from University Hall are signed. No title is so curt, nor so instantaneously effective, and consequently when the eye beholds it, that eye will almost automatically shudder and blink twice. Back of the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portraits of . . . . .Harvard Figures | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

To London reporters, Negro Singer Paul Robeson declared that he would never again sing in Italian. French or German, was looking instead for a "great Russian opera or play, or some great Hebrew or Chinese work which I feel I shall be able to render with the necessary degree of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

The time was when Boston was the Hub of the Universe and ruled with an oriental omnipotence the intellectual life of a continent. Then the Bulfinch drawing-rooms of Beacon Street were more English than Victoria, and the scrubbed and shining faces of the matrons who presided in them were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEACON STREET WITHOUT A FLAME | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

The China report supports the general contentions of Re-Thinking Missions. The Laymen's Inquiry noted that Christian endeavor is out of line with current Oriental trends and advocated that Christianity concern itself directly with social service and only obliquely with conversion. The sociological work should be carefully coordinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: China Missions | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

Biggest leak was hollow cheeked Henry Pu Yi, onetime Boy Emperor of China, now chief Whatnot of Manchukuo. Of the portions of the treasure which he was able to carry away, large sections went to Japan, other pieces were sold to private dealers. Last week citizens of Seattle trooped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Seattle | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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