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...Excerpt: "Around Deadwood Dick, whose real name was Richard Clarke, were woven romance and daring. But much written about him was fiction. He was not a desperado, not a bandit, stage-coach robber, or brigand. ... He was a good citizen, a necessarily rough character in the days when it was part of the life of the west, but withal not a bad man. . . . He was born in England, baptized and confirmed in the Church of England...
...Karl Taylor Compton, retired chairman of Princeton's Physics Department, was inducted as the eleventh president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By his side stood Samuel Wesley Stratton, who turned over the presidency to become chairman of the Executive Board and Corporation. Excerpt from President Compton's inaugural: "There is a very real danger, for industry is competing with universities for the best men, often taking them and then perhaps later finding fault with the institution for not giving its students a first-class training. ... The industries must, for their own ultimate self-interest...
...voices raised in Memorial Day oratory last week was that of James Rowland Angell, A.B., A.M., Litt.D., LL.D., President of Yale University. Like many another orator of the day, he decried U. S. chauvinism, legal instability, corruption. But chiefly he indicted U. S. citizens, not their laws or leaders. Excerpt: "It is not primarily faithlessness to public trust, nor corruption in its more overt forms, with which we are menaced. . . . It is rather the sordid and vulgar spirit which at times apparently engulfs the masses of our people, magnifying money and the power which it conveys as the dominating forces...
...Midwest. West and Europe in acknowledging Frank Lloyd Wright as a pioneer in modernism. The Architectural League dined him formally in its Manhattan clubhouse. After dinner the company witnessed the opening of the first Wright exhibition in Manhattan. On the walls were quotations from Mr. Wright's writings. Excerpt: "A good word in architecture is 'clean.' Another is 'integral.' Still another is 'plastic'-one more 'quiet.'" On view were two of his latest projects: an 18-story glass-walled residential tower built on the cantilever principle; a mammoth skyscraper...
...Excerpt from a biographical sketch (by The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography): "She has pronounced athletic tastes, is an accomplished horsewoman, swims and dives as another diversion, plays the harp, and is devoted to animals and birds. She is withal a poet and composer...