Word: huntting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning this morning undergraduates may obtain tickets on presentation of their Bursar's Cards in Hunt Hall...
...life Hunt Diederich has shared his father's passion for horses. Horse swapping expeditions in his early child hood carried him from one European country to another, gave him much variegated schooling...
...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Hunt Diederich started first to be a painter, put in several years producing sentimental canvases in the Barbizon manner. Hunt Diederich achieved his first popular success with a 15-ft. bronze of two gamboling greyhounds. It won a mention at the Paris Autumn Salon, much notice in the press, was promptly bought by Robert de Rothschild...
From the greyhound incident Hunt Diederich's reputation blossomed quickly. Followed a series of commissions for animal sculpture of all sorts from fire screens to weather vanes. His wrought-iron silhouets of horses and riders became world-known. At the height of his popularity eight years ago Hunt Diederich fell off a scaffolding in Germany, smashed his right leg. It became infected. Doctors wished to amputate but Sculptor Diederich stubbornly refused to let them, traveled in agony from one hospital to another. Few months ago the first real progress came with the application of sterile maggots to the open...
Crawling with maggots and bursting with new projects, last week Hunt Diederich was able to walk and work again, was busy constructing a trailer for a trip to Mexico, planning to take up painting after 25 years...