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...what one might call a chinologist," said Professor Pelliot after he had welcomed his interviewer with the greatest kindness and bienseance, "that is to say, I make a study of Chinese antiquities, and I have come to this country at the request of Columbia University to give a course on Chinese scholarship. My reception in this country has been very gratifying...
...Throughout Britain members of the Church of England uttered this prayer last week at the request of the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury...
...effort to terminate almost half a century of nugatory wrangling between Chile and Peru over the province of Tacna-Arica (TIME, Feb. 1 et ante), a dispute in which the U.S. became involved when President Harding acceded to the disputants' request that he act as arbiter, U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg submitted a concrete compromise plan to the Chilean and Peruvian Ambassadors last week at Washington...
...necklace stolen by a band of brigands; saw windmills in the clearing mist take shapes of giants making wild gestures with their great revolving arms, charged them in the name of his lady. Back he came with the necklace surrendered to him for the insane simplicity of his request, back to wed his Dulcinea who, kindly for a courtesan, sent him away, back into the forest to die. Florence Easton was Dulcinea, conscientiously seductive; Giuseppe de Luca, the faithful portly Sancho, himself a little mad. The opera, critics agreed, to be of little consequence, save for Massenet's unfailing craftsmanship...
...practicing what we think are reasonable limitations on schedules and hours of training . . . . Further, the scholastic requirements for athletic competition in this conference are very rigid and these men are not permitted to spend many hours per season off the campus with athletic teams." The letter ends with a request of not enrolling Conference athletes for A. A. U. competition until these athletes have gradated from their respective universities...