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...Academy at Rome. He is now Professor in the Fine Arts Department of Princeton University and is recognized both here and abroad as an authority on Early Christian Art. His recent publications are: "Lost Mosaics and Frescoes of Rome of the Mediaeval Period"; and "Studies in East Christian and Roman Art", by Walter Dennison and Charles R. Morey...
...repentant!" Come, frankly, what should we think of him if he were? The Roman Empire was governed by men of the highest respect for justice and the law, but as a matter of governmental necessity they were compelled to see to it that members of that idle and dangerous sect of agitators the Christians, burn a little just a little incense on the alter of the Emperor. They didn't do it, and some of us are inclined to admire them for it. JOHN F. SIMS...
...concert of the Harvard Glee Club in New York was a far cry from the traditional musical club events of the past, with their comic glees and their tinkling mandolins. The Harvard club sang a most taxing program, running from unaccompanied music of the early Roman Church down through the best music of the Romanticists and the moderns. The singing of the club was a revelation in male chorus work--equal, in fact, to any male chorus singing by amateurs that the writer has ever heard. What is more, the approval of the audience for the singing of the club...
...various outdoor, snow-and-ice contests and exhibitions are the main features of the carnival. The novel entertainment of an outdoor evening will begin with a march to the athletic field Thursday. Torches and Roman candles will show the way. The rink on the field will be lighted with spotlights and general skating permitted. Among the events on Friday will be a ski dash and a novice ski race, a snowshoe cross-country race, intercollegiate ski relay race, and ski cross-country and obstacle races. Saturday afternoon will be filled with ski-jumping, a somersaults exhibition, and other exercises...
...spite of Gabrielle d'Annuzio and his hair-brained followers, in spite of the elephantiasis of Serbian national pretensions, in spite of the various "unalterable stands:" determinedly held by various parties, common sense has prevailed in the Adriatic. Fiume will not form part of a new Roman Empire reaching from Gibraltar to the Hellespont. Nor will it form part of a Pan-Slavia extending from the White Sea to the Alps. Undoubtedly enthusiastic extremists on both sides will be bitterly and vociferously disappointed. But the world at large is thoroughly relieved over the ending of the impasse. A buffer state...