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...Dana, who was born in Lewiston, Maine, on May 25, 1881, came to Massachusetts at the age of 11, and after graduating from the College in 1904, took his LL.B. degree at the Law School in 1907. While at the University, he played on the baseball team and was business manager of the CRIMSON at the time when Franklin D. Roosevelt '03, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was president of the paper. He managed the University track team that went abroad in 1904, and, together with Yale, defeated the combined teams of Oxford and Cambridge by a score...
...Sullivan, the authoress, was born in Nebraska. Among her acquaintances on the frontier were Buffalo Bill and Major Frank North, both of whom she called "uncle". Her family was of pioneer stock, always pushing on to the new border-land of civilization. At the period of which she writes, a fierce conflict was being waged between the cattle interests and the general commercial interests that were striving to make the West a settled country. Although only a girl at the time, Mrs. Sullivan recalls vividly these stirring events in which her own family was engulfed...
...Born. To Princessa Mafalda, 25, consort of Prince Filippo D'Assia and daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy; in Rome...
...death last week came to Albert Champion, 49. He had made more spark plugs (the A-C brand) than had any other man. Despatches from Paris, where he had died, gave no cause for death. But he had lived hard, incessantly driving himself at his work. Born in France, he made himself what Frenchmen call "typical" U. S. businessman, always under nervous tension. When he played, he played hard. He was married...
...John Burgoyne was born in London in 1722. The family was of good old stock. . . ." Gentleman Johnny, like many a brave young man of his day or of any day, spent his youth in riotous and genial diversions. A soldier but not inelegant, he wrote a letter to a lord and signed...