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...Handy, Elmer Jr., J. K. Hart, J. M. Heidell, E. Hollis, Jr., H. E. Holm, Jr., Hoiske, R. S. Hormell, V. W. Howe, H. Hunter, J. F. Hutchinson, C. L. L. W. Kane, D. M. Kellogg, Jr., G. Kellogg, Waters Kellogg, H. L. Jr., E. A. Kratovil, L. P. Ledoux, Lehmann, Jr., Edward Levy, E. L. R. M. Lorent...
Emphasizing the personal background in the career of the late George Edward Woodberry '77, L. V. Ledoux, president of the Woodberry Society, addressed the group which meet last night at the official opening of the new Poetry Room at Widener Library. The room, which has just been completed under the gift of $50,000 from Harry Harkness Flagler, of Milbrook, New Jersey, had previously been opened to the private view of a few intimate friends of Amy Lowell, Morris Gray '77, and Woodberry, to each of whom it will serve as a memorial...
...Ledoux, who studied under Woodberry at Columbia, as did the donor of the room, has written a book on Japan, and in addition to his interest in poetry is prominent as a geologist. His lecture was given under the Morris Gray fund, being the last of the year's talks to be given in that connection. The speaker went on to illustrate the enthusiasm with which Woodberry inspired his pupils, and the devotion with which he followed their literary careers, by reading several of the letters which the well-known poet and critic wrote to young men on the threshold...
...women and public speaking ? came to fame in 1905 when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since then, for Collected Poems (1921) and The Man Who Died Twice (1924), judges have deemed his poetry worthy of Pulitzer...
Last week a "strike" against this early rising-hour was called by famed Urbain Ledoux, the "Mr. Zero" whose sensational stunts in behalf of Bowery bums have made him widely known as "President of the Old Bucks and Lame Ducks Club...