Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refused to express any opinion at all of America, refused to give his address in Manhattan. This, of course, was not playing the game which so many Britishers have overplayed. The Victorian poet, beloved of Masefield, master technician, comes to grace the campus of Ann Arbor as visiting lecturer, patron saint, what you will; a post which was previously occupied by our own poet, Robert Frost. It has 'been rumored that at Oxford, near which he lives, the elderly poet finds time and takes pleasure in the company of young English versifiers. How will he find the atmosphere...
Died. Ganson Goodyear Depew, 27, Assistant U. S. Attorney of Buffalo, sportsman, orator, patron of the arts, grandnephew of Chauncey M. Depew: at Aiken...
...purpose of its founders. It was established, more or less, for the publication of books of a scholastic nature which would not ordinarily find a publisher--or maybe a market. If it had clung closely to this stipulation it might have soon found itself in the need of a patron such as are sought for operas or for "art for art's sake". But to forestall such a prospect, however remote, the Alumni Bulletin has furnished a very good recommendation which deserves more attention. It is, let the Press be its own patron...
...almost be charge against the Press at the present time, since it continues to limit its field of publication, and allows outside encroachments. Not every man is interested in such a scholarly work as "The Achievement of Greece," but such works, should they need support, ought to have a patron even at the expense of hob-nobbing with less aristocratic press-mates. There is no need on the other hand of encouraging incipient novelists or poets, but, as has been suggested by the Bulletin, more books of the type of President Lowell's "Public Opinion in War and Peace", which...
Among the prominents listed as backers is George Bernard Shaw. One scarcely thinks of the satirical Irishman-Englishman as a patron, but it will be recalled that early in his career he functioned as a music critic. And one of his first successful books was The Perfect Wagnerite with its characteristically Shavian appreciations of the music of the great Richard...