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...achieved a considerable reputation not alone for his writing but for his activities in the dissolute society of the Earl of Rochester. As the grew more disreputable, his patron age, gradually disappeared, and a year later, his mind was completely unhinged. Five years were spent in Bethlehem Hospital where he to some extent recovered but not very long after leaving the Hospital he died in a drunken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/16/1926 | See Source »

...preparation, through the study of such problems, of those who are to administer the schools of the country and to teach in them, could go forward under no better auspices. Nor is it granted to many institutions to rejoice in the health and vigor of such a patron at eighty-eight, nor in the happy prospect of his long continued activity...

Author: By Henry WYMAN Holmes, (WRITTEN FOR THE CRIMSON IN MARCH, 1924) | Title: "Patient, Sagacious Leadership. . . ." | 12/15/1926 | See Source »

Married. Fifi Widener Leidy, 23, daughter of Joseph E. Widener (Philadelphia capitalist-philanthropist-art patron); to one Milton C. Holden, 35; in Philadelphia. Early this year she divorced her first husband, Carter Leidy, with whom she eloped when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...Friday evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson, D. M. Edonard Champion, widely-known French publisher and patron of men of letters, will lecture on Proudest. This lecture, which will be in French, is open to the general public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDOUARD CHAMPION TO GIVE TWO PUBLIC TALKS IN FRENCH | 12/7/1926 | See Source »

...entered the church ; the people of Tours chose him as their Bishop; he is the patron saint of cordiality, merry meetings and reformed drunkards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Theotocopuli | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

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