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...early times a member, and for a while the President, of the Dante Society of Cambridge. The articles which he published from time to time dealt for the most part with elusive problems of language or literature, and always with the same intrepid precision. These publications won him high renown abroad and, by reflection, at home. A youthful product, 'A Short German Grammar...
...ability to leer in a naughty fashion will often earn a witless fellow a reputation as a wag; luck in getting his books suppressed will bring an author to renown even though no one has ever read them. Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke, President of the Leslie-Judge Co., may not therefore have been altogether stunned when he was told last week that his funny-paper, Judge, was barred from the mails...
...Worcester, Mass., is a Roman Catholic college of renown-Holy Cross. In the college is a library, in the library a librarian. The latter, by recent appointment, is one Foster W. Stearns...
...Coates entered Parliament 14 years ago and, for fully 8 of those years, was a nonentity. In the War, he rose to the rank of major, won the Military Cross. Such success brought him some renown and his chance. Premier Massey added him to his Cabinet, and into that Cabinet Mr. Coates gradually introduced business methods, eschewed political considerations. His sole claim to fame rests upon that fact...
This total lack of interest in a project that in theory at least is highly commendable is most disappointing. It might be supposed that students would be more than willing to profit from the guidance of a teacher of Dr. Davison's renown. It might be presumed that Harvard students would enjoy learning to sing their own songs. Certainly such experience would save many moments of hopeless embarrassment at banquets and reunions. At other colleges as the press comment from the Princetonian in the next column indicates, the love of a custom of song services is so deeply in-trenched...