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Many of the audience went to the concert more from force of habit than for any other reason; few, certainly, entertained very high hopes for the interest of the concert--Bach, an almost unknown Davico, and a d'Indy Symphony--surely nothing to excite the imagination to any very luscious dreams...
...Faculty has announced that there will be no other official observation of the day. Classes will be held as usual. On last year's Armistice Day a general holiday was declared on account of the ceremonies of the burial of the Unknown Soldier and the Washington Conference, but this holiday was for the one year only...
...Chinese situation is beginning to assume world importance, and deserves a great deal of consideration by statesmen of today. The present government under the acting presidency of Li Yun-Hung is maintaining over a million soldiers under arms. What the outcome of the internal fighting will be is unknown, but it is going to be of immense importance to the world. How soon it will be important depends on how rapidly a new and lasting unity is achieved. That this unity will take the form of a democracy, I have no doubt. The Chinese have never believed in the Divine...
...Etatis Svae 28." Professor Paul Ganz, the well-know authority on Holbein, writing of this portrait says: "The Portrait of a Young Man" is a genuine, exquisite work of Hans Holbein the Younger. The drawing for this picture is in the Library of Windsor Caste. . .In my opinion this unknown man has a strong family likeness with the French Ambassador Jean de Dinteville, painted by Holbein twice, and there is a great probability that it is the portrait painted by his younger brother...
...hand and at short range how much the committee owed to him. Perhaps he might be permitted to recall the fact that when he first came to Washington, 25 years before, seated in the same chair of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was another Theodore Roosevelt, then comparatively unknown, who displayed the same zeal, enthusiasm, and technical knowledge of his duties that the present chairman of that committee had displayed. He could not help feeling that the ability and success which Colonel Roosevelt had shown in this, the first of his official tasks, in Washington, was of a character...