Word: davison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowell's poetry there is something which always reminds me of mosaic work," Mr. Edward Davison said in an exclusive interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon at a tea which followed the poetry Matinee in the Repertory Theater. Mr. Davison, one of the most talented of the younger English poets, is at present reading and lecturing in this country. On this particular occasion he had read several selections from his latest book, "The Harvest of Youth...
...CRIMSON reporter asked Mr. Davison what he thought of the extreme tendency in modern poetry toward freedom of form. "I thing I can answer that question best by telling you something I recently heard. 'Modern free verse the remark went, 'is no more a new form of poetry than sleeping in a ditch is a new form of architecture.' I think there is perhaps a great deal in that. In my own work I am inclined to adhere more to the conventional forms of meter and rhyme. I am proud to say that I am not one of those...
...months he had been trying quietly to persuade the Egyptian government to accept a large number of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s dollars for a museum to house the relics that diggers of all nations are constantly extracting from the soil of the oldest nation. Mr. Rockefeller had written King Fuad a personal letter, and Professor Breasted was there to back...
...Established in 1841 as the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. It is the wealthiest Baptist congregation in the world. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is honorary president of its Bible Class, of which Charles Evans Hughes was once leader. Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce, President of Brown University, founded the class. (Both Hughes and Rockefeller attended Brown. Hughes' son went to Brown [1909], but Rockefeller's eldest son is at Princeton...
...became an assistant national bank examiner at 23 and soon married Jessie Duncan Hayden of Boston. The panic of 1907 gave him his great opportunity. He had come to Manhattan shortly before. During the crisis J. P. Horgan found two young men upon whom he could rely, Henry Pomeroy Davison (died 1922) and 39-year-old "Al" Wiggin...