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...fuller recognition of distinguished American artists." The American artists were: Mme. Charles Cahier, contralto; Ruth Breton, violinist; Fred Patton, baritone; John Powell, composer-pianist. The American music was Powell's Variations and Fugue on a theme of F. C. Hahr, songs by Loeffler, Chadwick, Carpenter, Sidney Homer, Henry Hadley, E. S. Kelley, Walter Damrosch, Edward Harris, arrangements of Kentucky mountain songs by Howard A. Brockway, violin numbers by Brockway, Cecil Burleigh, Hadley, MacDowell and Sowerby...
...special trains tugged out of Manhattan one day last week. They carried Chairman Chauncey M. Depew* and President Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central, besides many another railroad official and their guests. With them were President Emeritus Arthur T. Hadley of Yale, Bishop William T. Manning and U.S. Senator Royal S. Copeland. All were bound for Albany and Schenectady...
...married Bessie Bell, a Hadley (Mass.) girl, who had illustrated his first book of verse. A volume of stories, Master Frisky, woven about their pet collie, was well received and the blind man began to go back into the bright memories of a boyhood spent in woods and fields for the material of eight books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky...
Like many another seemingly handicapped man, Author Hawkes says: "I don't do anything differently from anyone else." Fishing is his great recreation, and his acute hearing has made him a delighted auditor at football and baseball sidelines. On the occasion of Hadley's 250th anniversary parade, he designed 30 floats, working out color schemes with his wife's aid. A radio enthusiast, he hopes soon to have broadcast to his 100,000 fellow blind people in the U. S., his autobiography, Hitting the Dark Trail...
...called it bureaucratic and dangerously political. He said: "About education we talk much and know little." President Emeritus Judson of the University of Chicago called it a temptation to political vanity and unscientific. President Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania said it would violate state rights. And President Emeritus Hadley of Yale let fly at it thus: "It [the Bill] provides for an added expenditure of one and a half million dollars of Government money for Consolidated Gas. But the present output of Consolidated Gas at Washington is much more than sufficient for the needs of the people...