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...Born in Connecticut in 1850, Dr. Lanman is a lineal descendant of Francis Cook and John Alden of the Mayflower, and of "Brother Jonathan" governor of Conecticut in the early Colonial period. He graduated from Yale in 1871, and studied abroad in Berlin, Tubingen, and Leipzig during the succeeding three years. Later he received honorary degrees from Yale and the University of Aberdeen. From 1876 until he came to the University four years later, Professor Lanman was Turnbull lecturer on the poetry of India at Johns Hopkins University...
...carry a heavier load at every point. It must be kept alive in times of peace, so that it may not succumb to dry-rot. Incidentally, it has had a very active life in the past few years, trying to stretch itself to cover the many new army activities born since the Great...
Queen Elizabeth, slim, valiant helpmate of slim, valiant King Albert I of the Belgians, received last week a sprig of 19 roses, roses that smelled sweetly of balsam and musk, the gracious appreciation of a noble woman held in high esteem by His Holiness Pius XI, who was born Achille Ratti, a papal gift for her silver wedding anniversary. The roses were artificial and constituted the famed Golden Rose...
...Born. To Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, a son, to be christened "Tom"; at Washington...
Klemperer's reputation is as striking as his stature (nearly 7 ft.) and appearance. Artur Bodanzky, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Co., who knew him as a young man, declares, "He has never been known to approach a musical composition from a conventional or customary angle." Born in 1885 (the year Walter Damrosch first conducted the New York Symphony), he spent his early years in the operatic field. He was still in his early 20's when Gustav Mahler sought and secured his services as conductor in the German Opera House at Prague. Strasburg, Cologne and Berlin knew...