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While a band situated between University and Hollis halls played "God Save the Queen" the royal party was escorted to Gore Hall, the old library which stood on the present site of Widener, and there received by President Felton of the University. He then inspected the library, after being introduced to the Fellows, the Overseers and the entire faculty of the College. When he had viewed the curiosities and rarities on display there, he was presented with a "History of Harvard College" emblazoned with the arms of the University and the crest and plume of the Prince...
...Premiership is not an office and the holder has no legal power over his fellow members Until 1905 the position was unrecognized but in December of that year King Edward VII signed a royal warrant granting Premiers of Britain precedence next after the Archbishop of York, or twelfth in the table of precedency. * The last time a sovereign of Britain refused assent to a bill was in 1707. when Queen Anne withheld assent to the Scotch Militia Bill...
...Speaker of the House of Commons was thereupon summoned to the House of Lords to hear the Royal Assent given to the bill, the full title of which is the Irish Free State (Confirmation of Agreement) Bill. The measure became a law of the land, a law by which the Government at London is empowered to appoint a commissioner for Northern Ireland on the Boundary Commission...
...offered peace. His letters were torn up; his messengers detained. Many Meccans left their city. Bedouins were reported to have sacked the Royal palace. From Tranjordania, 7000 "Volunteers" set off to help Ali Raise the seige of Jeddah, whence came a plea for British intervention from Mohammed Bey Tawall, head of the Jeddah Council of Notables. Said Mohammed: "Surely Britain has some responsibility-she put Husein upon his throne...
George Bernard Shaw arose, last week, before a gathering of Art students in London. Said he: "The King of England is obliged to go to the Goodwood races, to the football cup ties and to shake hands with the players. But he is not expected to go to the Royal Academy. It would be a nine days' sensation if he made a practice of shaking hands with artists...