Word: lange
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Haddon entered the Edinburgh Academy in 1916 at the age of 12 to prepare for Edinburgh University. Sir Walter Scott was one of the founders of the Academy, and Robert Louis Stevenson studied there, as well as Sir James Clerk-Maxwell, Andrew Lang, Lord Haldane, and Lord Finlay, President of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Haddon played Rugby football while at the Academy, won several class and special prizes, and in his last year was head of his house. In 1922 he entered the University of Edinburgh as a candidate for the Master of Arts degree, which he received...
...JOHN W. LANG...
When term classes ended last week for students of Holy Cross, Jesuit college at Worcester, Mass., a gentle-faced German student hastened to the train that would start him toward Germany. He was Anton Lang II, second son of the able Christus of the Passion Players of Oberammergau (see p. 19). At Holy Cross, Anton II had proved himself able (high marks) and entertaining (violinist with the musical clubs...
After months of raging, there was satisfaction last week at Oberammergau, home of the famed Passion Players. Anton Lang, able Christus, had written a letter denouncing his nephew Otto Lang for apostasy from Catholicism to Methodism. America, U. S. Catholic weekly, printed the letter: ". . . Never before was it known that any child of Oberammergau did such a thing in America as to leave the Catholic Church. For his passing over into the Methodist Church neither his relatives nor Oberammergau can be held responsible. Acting as a good Catholic, my son [Anton], who at present is studying at Holy Cross College...
...Spartanburg, S. C.) where she took a master's degree at 17. She taught school until she met and married William G. Peterkin, prosperous planter. She put by her plans for a musical and perhaps theatrical career to manage the Peterkin plantation, "Lang Syne," 40 miles from Columbia, S. C., and bring up a son who is now 22. She became "a superb horsewoman, a keen huntswoman and an excellent shot." Not until the 1920's did she start writing and her first things won instant recognition, including an O. Henry Memorial mention. A professor-friend describes...