Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Youth. Born 73 years ago on a farm in Lorain County, Ohio, child Herrick was not even then so remote from France and culture as to escape frequent readings aloud by his father of many a "standard work," among them those of Victor Hugo...
...MIRACLE BOY?Louis Golding ?Knopf ($2.50). Under the jacket, on which a jaundiced little shaver is pictured wading through a swamp of flowers, lies the story of a Tyrolean peasant, who, instead of a halo, carried a raven on his shoulder. Hugo Harpf, imagined as a very recent saint, toiled in his village, loved a peasant's daughter, went to Munich to learn how to paint and came home to work miracles. For this he was first killed and then worshipped. In its intention the story is not so much a satire as a critical footnote on the life...
Better known, of course, is M. Buisson, now Honorary President of the League of the Rights of Man. Since he attended the first so-called "Congress for Peace and Liberty" in 1867, he has labored with and assisted almost every famed pacifist from Victor Hugo to Aristide Briand. Hundreds of peace tracts flowed incessantly off his pen during a literary activity of 60 years. Finally, he has raised his voice for peace in the French Parliament? as Herr Quidde has done in the German...
...Said Hugo Newman, Principal of the school: "She had begun to deteriorate . . . her work was both technically and temperamentally unsound. . . ." Said William J. O'Shea, Superintendent of Schools: "The least we could do for Miss Byrne was to give her a chance to recover. When she did not recuperate quickly it was suggested to her that she retire on pension. That she refused to do. Finally, in October, the Board of Education recommended to the Teachers Retirement Board that she be placed on pension. The matter is now before that board. It is unfortunate, and I wish we could...
...glory from his college; all of it from his coach. Though stars burn out quickly, the quieter light of coaches burns steadily in the football background. Who now knows the names of Russell Lloyd or J. T. Haxall?* But who does not know of Robert C. Zuppke (Illinois), Hugo Bezdek (Penn State), Glenn Warner (Stanford), William W. Roper (Princeton), Gilmour Dobie (Cornell), Fielding H. Yost (Michigan), Howard H. Jones (Southern California), T. A, D. Jones (Yale), Capt. L. M. ("Biff") Jones (Army) and Knute Kenneth Rockne (Notre Dame...