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Died. Mrs. George C. Riggs("Kate Douglas Widdin"), 63, author, at Harrow, England following an operation. She wrote The Birds Christmas Carol, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Old Peabody...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin: " Because I wore a blue sack suit, primrose-colored waistcoat, shabby soft gray hat and loose gloves to the Eton-Harrow cricket match, Tailor and Cutter pronounced me a ' sartorial weed' - that is, ' suburban.' Lloyd George, the Earl of Balfour and Lord Robert Cecil have been similarly rebuked by this periodical...
...first three Henry P. Davison scholarships were awarded to three Oxford men: C. V. Salmon, Harrow and Balliol; J. Bird, Clongowes and Balliol; R. W. Cecil, Eton and Christ Church. Salmon goes to Princeton; Bird, prominent athlete, to Harvard; Cecil, son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Evelyn Cecil, M.P., G.B.E., to Yale...
...emergency. Curzon was in the offing, but did not get the job. The world breathes again and Mr. Baldwin becomes a popular choice. His appointment, however, is convenient rather than fortunate. Baldwin. Stanley Baldwin is a man of 55 years of age. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained honors in mathematics. He then became immersed in business and succeeded his father, Alfred Baldwin, as chief partner of Baldwins Ltd., an iron foundry. His political career commenced in 1908 when he was elected to Parliament for the Bewdley division of Worcestershire. It was not until...
...hero himself is appropriately styled by his fellow, is the incarnation of the spirit of youth. Though preserving among hundreds of his own type an individuality at once winning and intriguing, Robin is a capital example of that type of Englishlad who left the playing fields of Eton and Harrow, the clositered seclusion of Oxford, or the placide reaches of the Cam to fling his life, a care-free sacrifice, on the altar of England's glory...