Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-27

ance of loyal units. 1t seems to be a
| toss up, with the odds just slightly
| favoring Chang Kai-Shek.
1 noted last week a report to the
effect that Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang.
resident in Shansi since several months
ago he formally relinquished command
of the Kuominchun, had been clapped
in quod by Yen Hsi-Shan, governor
of ShanSi. Latest reports show him in
Shensi, presumably directing operations
of the Kuominchun.
Fighting seems to be vigorously on
in Honan and Hupeh provinces, with
honors so far apparently about even.
cite the following from the dispatches:
Yen HSi-Shan, governor OF ShanSi, has
proclaimed himself neutral; the gov
ernor of Human has joined the rebel
lion; Gen. Chang Fa-Kwei, foiled in
his designs upon Canton, has struck
north from Kwangsi into Human with
the remnant of his "IronsideS."
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UNITED STATES.-Columbia Uni
versity is celebrating the 150th ami
verSary of its founding. On october
81, 1854, King George II granted a
charter to Kings College, with the
foundation of the republic to be re-
named Columbia College, and within
recent years to evolve into Columbia
University, one of the greatest of in
situations of learning. The old college
had flavor, bouquet, almost as decidedly
as Harvard, Yale or Princeton-a bou-
quet not altogether lost despite the
vast extension of plant and increase of
university of the student body, and
despite the very great changes OF en-
vironment Notable traditions of sound
and elegant scholarship survive.
Upon the occasion of this anniversary
ri JiP
cure to the university complete possess
sion from eastern to western Scarp of
the major part of Morningside Heights,
| in which case no other university in
the world could rival it for site. More
over. the architecture of the university
buildings on the heights leaves almost
everything to be desired in respect of
beauty. These should be demolished
and be replaced by group of build
ings altogether worthy of the site (rec-
tilted as per above)-the worlds chief
wonder, no less.
The old college is now only one of
four undergraduate colleges included
within the university, the others being
Barnard (the women's college,, st. Ste
pl1en'S, in glorious situation up on
the Hudson, and Seth Low. in Brooklyn.
Institutions of the very first note en-
braced in the university are the College
|
of Mines. the Law School and the
Teachers College.
The list of graduates Of the old COL
lege boasts many puissant names. as
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert
r. Livingston and John Stevens, the
inventor
On october 10 a coalition of Demo-
Gratis and insurgent Republicans Sc
cured passage by the Senate, AZ to "a,
of the Norris export debenture plan as
an amendment to the Smoot-Hawley
tariff bill. There seems little doubt
that the amendment will be killed in
conference.
Thomas Hastings, one of the most
notable architects America has pro-
duced, is dead at SO. With the late
John M. Carrere he founded the firm
of Carrere & Hastings, the contribu-
ton of which to the chief of our latter
day glories-our architecture-has been
so extraordinary. Among his own de-
signs are those of the Memorial Amphi-
theater in Arlington Cemetery, the
American embassy in London, and the
Senate and House of Representatives
ONCE Buildings in Washington. He
was not an adrnirer Of the skyscraper.
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NOTES.-The Pope has reconstructed
the See Of Iceland, which lapsed when