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Charles Richard Crane, Hon. '22, head of the Crane Manufacturing Company of Chicago, yesterday was revealed as the hitherto anonymous donor of the Lowell House bells, thus disposing of the rumor that they were the gift of President Lowell...
...Crane, although never a student at Harvard, was awarded an honorary degree of LL.D. by the University in 1922 as having "sustained innumerable projects artistic, scientific and philanthropic," in the words of the official citation accompanying the degree...
Valuable additions to the collection of poems, woodcuts, and illustrations for fine books by Walter Crane have come into the possession of Widener Library and have been put with the collection in the Treasure Room awaiting exhibition...
...most complete existing of the Victorian artist, poet, woodcarver, and eminent socialist. It is the gift of A. H. Parker '98, given in memory of Caroline Miller Dabney Parker, over a period of several years. Among the most recent acquisitions are first editions and original drawings of Crane's illustrations to picture books for children, which sold fifty years ago for a shilling, and are now almost priceless. These include "Mother Hubbard", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Five Little Pigs", which subsequently ran into many editions under the name of Walter Crane's Picture Books. Along with these were...
Honored. Charles Richard Crane, 72, of Manhattan, onetime (1920-1921) U. S. Minister to China; named honorary adviser to the Chinese Nationalist Government by H. H. Kung, Chinese Minister of Industry, Commerce & Labor. Last week Mr. Crane sailed to visit Ibn Saud, King of Hejaz and Nejd...