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...promote the breeding of sturdy Belgian draft horses, sent Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to the U. S., to offer a cup at the Live Stock exposition. Charles A. Wentz of Kirby, Ohio, won it with his four-year-old Belgian stallion Lordeau II. Evert King of Chicago owns the best stallion, Waynesdale King. Champion last year also, Waynesdale King could not compete for King Albert...
...gift of $6,000 from members of the Harvard Club of New York for the furnishing of one of the rooms in the new branch of The Boys Club now in process of construction at 321 East 111th Street. The room has been given in memory of the late Evert Jansen Wendell of the class of 1882 at Harvard University who was a prominent track athlete and who spent most of his life in work among boys. The late Mr. Wendell was an overseer of Harvard University and was vice president of The Harvard Club at the time...
...their lapels; stone men cemented up their differences, iron men welded their friendships, plumbers soldered sound opinions with a friendly pipe, draughtsmen were seen slipping away, arm in arm, for a draught. At meals they listened to famed speakers: Harvey W. Corbe President of the Architectural League, Manhattan; D. Evert Waid, President of the American Institute of Architects; Robert W. DeForest, patron of the arts, Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, famed British designer of the Queen's Doll House, who arrived from Delhi, India, to be presented with the farm gold medal of the Institute. Many were the plans discussed, many...
...Musical Academy of Stockholm, Sweden, a poet gave a recital. He was Evert Taube, troubadour, who makes music with his lute to the words of his poems. Of gods and heroes he sang, of knights and demons fighting by waters black with ice, of flaxen-haired princesses. Ever, meanwhile, his lute spoke underneath, sadly, gayly, wildly. Loud did Swedish people in the Musical Academy applaud Poet Taube, last of the troubadours. "He is a second Bellman*," they said...
...Evert Wendell really started track athletics at Harvard," Mr. George B. Morison '83 told the CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Morison, a member of the same track squad as Wendell in 1882 and also a member of the football team for three years, is now president of the Harvard Varsity club. "Wendell," he continued, "by the greatest possible enthusiasm and spirit got every one else interested in track. His power of leadership, genuine zest for competition, and ability to communicate his enthusiasm to others meant everything to track athletics at Harvard...