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Died. Prince Victor Jerome Frederic Napoleon Bonaparte, 64, pretender to the throne of France, head of the House of Bonaparte, husband of Princess Clémentine of Belgium (daughter of the late King Leopold), scholar, student, connoisseur; at Brussels, Belgium, where his large private fortune enabled him to live in the retired comfort which he loved. He was known as one of the greatest European authorities on the U. S. Constitution. He is "succeeded" by his 12-year-old son, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, for whom Napoleon Clémentine will act as "regent" until he becomes...
...opportunity to influence the college community. Thus, by a natural seepage of ideas might the cause of international amity be furthered. It seems safe to say that such undergraduate fellowships would help in making general student opinion tolerant, as well as aiding the selected man to become an imperial connoisseur of prejudice...
...Trevise, a noted French art collector and connoisseur, will give an illustrated lecture in French at Fogg Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The subject of the lecture is "Three Sculptors of the Nineteenth Century--Rodin, Rude and Carpeaux." The lecture will be open to the public and no tickets will be required for admission...
...peers and parasites eyed the heeling white boats, for it was the first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry and the Duke of Connaught aboard was racing against Sir Thomas and the others. Doubtless in the gnarled heart of that connoisseur of defeats there pricked, for a moment, the thrill of the possibility of victory; his boat was first at the gun; the royal cutter slipped farther and farther behind. But, having learned to savor the futility of hope, doubtless he was not surprised when Lord Waring's White Heather...
...Keezer, long famous as a clothier, agreed last night to the rumor that he has set up as an art connoisseur with an original Whistler etching to his credit...