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...Kidnapped 85 miles from Foochow, in Fukien Province, last week while en route to consecrate a new church were aged and ailing Bishop Manuel Prat and Father Alfonso Andres, Spanish Dominicans. "We very much doubt," said a Spanish mission spokesman, "whether our beloved Bishop can possibly survive the rigors of captivity...
Recent acquisitions include portraits of Sir Nathan Wright, Benjamin Prat, Sir John Maynard, John Williams and Stephen Sewall. The portrait of Maynard is by Kneller and is regarded as one of the finest paintings in the School's collection. Maynard, who served under Cromwell and Charles II, was a great legal scholar and edited the Year Books. The portrait represents him in his red robe as serjeant-at-law and the special head dress--the coif--of the serjeants...
...engineering school. He is inclined to look on the study of mathematics, physics, or chemistry as something abstract, a kind of preliminary warming up for the real job which is to come later in the professional school. And this conception is not infrequently due to his elders prat about "pure" science and "applied" science. It seems to him a far cry from the simple steam-engine and the dynamo of his first courses in physics, to a fifty thousand kilowatt turbo-generator. Although some of his courses may be labelled "physics" and other "engineering" they are all part of some...
...Pratt estate on the borders of Watertown and Belmont will be bought before the first of March, and the adjoining Stearns estate can be leased. This land has been found to be the most suitable situation near Boston for an eighteen hole course. The old Prat house will be used for the club-house. Annual dues are to be $50 for family membership and $40 for single male membership. All Harvard men who wish to join may send word to the committee on election...