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Rumor. King Alfonso XIII, having piously buried his mother (TIME, Feb. 18), turned to affairs of state, last week, with such vigor that news leaks through the Spanish censorship envisioning His Majesty as demanding the resignation of General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, who has now dictated for five and a half years...
Death closed, last week, "them orbs of royal blue." They were the eyes of Her Majesty the Queen-Mother Maria Christina. During the Spanish-American War she was Regent of Spain for her stripling son, the present sprightly King Alfonso XIII. Surely all U. S. gentlefolk who ever gloated over the U. S. defeat of Regent Christina's forces must feel a little sheepish as they view again her picture (see cut). Spaniards know that Queen Christina combined the majesty and mass of a Roman Emperor with the devout, portly sweetness of a Mother Abbess...
...FRIDAY, JANUARY 25. (XIII) Anthropology 2 Harvard 3 Chemistry B Mallinckrodt Large Lect.-rm. Chinese 3 Sever 30 Class. Archaeology 1a Sever 18 Class. Philology 39 Sever 18 Comp. Literature 6a Sever 11 Comp. Literature 35 Sever 30 Comp. Philology 1 Sever 18 Economics A Mr. Bigelow, O, Y New Lect. Hall Dr. Chamberlin, C New Lect. Hall Mr. deChazeau, K, T. New Lect. Hall Mr. Crane, J, R New Lect. Hall Mr. Johnson, G, S New Lect. Hall Mr. Leighton, B, E New Lect. Hall Mr. Parsons, W, BB Memorial Hall Mr. Ratzlaff, L, U Harvard 6 Mr. Shoemaker...
...political tangle which precipitated Merry del Val on his so-glittering early career. Cardinal Rampolla was expected to succeed to the papacy when Leo XIII died in 1903. But objections were raised and the election finally went to Giuseppe Sarto, a simple priest, peasant by birth, peasant-hearted to the end of his days...
Under Pope Leo XIII Merry del Val was Master of the Robes and Privy Chamberlain, and one of the youngest members of the papal household. He had ample exercise for his patrician tastes. He liked horses, liked dancing; he was an excellent shot. In ecclesiastical matters however he was not widely known. And when the new pope, Pius X, in his emergency, selected Merry del Val as ProSecretary of State the decision came as a distinct shock...