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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...
...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...
...club is keeping to the policy it has pursed for many years. That policy, inaugurated by Dr. Davison, is to sing the best music in the best manner. Whatever struggle there may have been at the outset to get Harvard College undergraduates to sing such music, it very soon transpired that they preferred it to any other. The club is a cross-section of the college; it has demonstrated its value not only in the college world but in the general world of music, to its influence is largely due the very great improvement in standards among college glee clubs...