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...Died. Desha Breckinridge, 67, Kentucky sportsman, politician, longtime editor-publisher of the Lexington Herald; in Lexington...
...Fuzzy-Wuzzy." And the Glee Club had rousingly performed such numbers as "The Pope" ("He leads a jolly life, jolly life . . ."); "Church in the Wildwood" ("No spot is so dear to my childhood"); "The Lone Fishball" and fine old "Tourelay" with its chorus: Tourelay, tourelay, With my fillaga desha, skinamaroosha, balderalda boom tadeay, Tourelay, tourelay, And the pride of the household is papa's babie. Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead. Alumni like them no less than does amiable Professor Phelps. And alumni tastes count when...
...Married. Desha Breckinridge, editor and publisher of the Lexington, Ky. Herald; to Mrs. Frazer Lebus of Lexington, widow of Clarence Lebus, onetime largest Kentucky land owner; in Nantucket, Mass...
...Desha Bank & Trust Co. building at Arkansas City, Ark., stands a clock, the hands of which point to twelve minutes past two. They have been recording that moment for some eight weeks, ever since the Mississippi flood hit the town and stopped the clock. They may continue to register 2:12 for weeks, perhaps months, to come. For most of Arkansas City is still under water and in Arkansas City, as in thousands of other towns, villages and plantations in the flood district, the aftermath of the catastrophe threatens to cause more loss, more suffering than the catastrophe itself...
...League to Secure Peace (Hamilton Holt, April 7, 1914, in Emerson D); pacifism (Norman Angell, February 14, 1914, in Emerson D, and April 16, 1914, in the New Lecture Hall); Christian Science (Virgil O. Strickler, March 13, 1914, in Emerson D); Woman Suffrage (Helen Todd, November 8, 1913, Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, April 2, 1914, and Norman Hapgood, March 20, 1914, all in Emerson D); Scientific Management (F. W. Taylor, three lectures in 1913, in a College room). In all these cases, in accordance with the very proper College rule, the meetings were thrown open to members of the University only...