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...Shantung, was held by them to be personally responsible for the bandit outrage which occurred near Tsinan last May. Obviously his promotion to a higher rank was a flagrant violation of the spirit contained in the last Chinese note to the Diplomats (TIME, Oct. 22), which gave them to understand that Tien Chung-Yu had been punished...
...danger, at least as far as choice of studies is concerned, of descending to the department store type of education. If together with Arnold we believe that Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world", it is easy to understand why business men as well as educators suggest the general and cultural course as the best preparation for life and why students seem to choose...
...astounding how much the term "benefit concert" will do towards keeping away an audience from even really cod artists presenting an intelligent program. It is hard to understand how there should have been such a meagre audience at the concert of Albert Spalding and Edith Mason in behalf of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund last evening Symphony Hall...
...James W. McBain yesterday in an interview for the CRIMSON. "Americans seen to feel that a scientific education is not complete until a certain period has been spent in study in a foreign country. Why anyone should choose to leave the greatest laboratories in the world is difficult to understand...
...foreign immigrants. Although the second class menu is not mentioned, it must be concocted of some fearful kind of pigeon English. At any rate the advantage of a proper equipment of French is easily apparent. One at once belongs to the very exclusive group of those who understand what they are ordering. Thus one avoids such an embarrasing faux pas as that of the man who, pointing to an item on the menu, asked for "Some of this please" and received the answer "The orchestra is playing that now, Sir". Or one might even join that more exclusive group...