Word: landey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Dr. Francis Landey Patton, Princeton's onetime president and "Grand Old Man" (89); Wilhelm Hohenzollern (73) ; Vice President Charles Curtis (72) ; Walter Johannes Damrosch (70); Baritone Antonio Scotti (65); Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Princeton's active Grand Old Man is Professor Emeritus Henry Van Dyke, author, poet, preacher, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg. He it is who is brought out to show to visiting notables. But Princeton sentiment also embraces the aged Francis Landey Patton, President from 1888 to 1902. Upon his resignation, he took up the Presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1913 he went into retirement in Bermuda where he was born 87 years ago and whither he returned still a British subject. Holidaying Princetonians go to see him, shake his thin hand. They...