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Last week the President of the U. S. appointed a Minister to Haiti. He is Dana Gardner Munro, 38, studious son of that scholarly father, Princeton's Professor of Medieval History, Dr. Dana Carleton Munro. Young Minister Munro is an engaging, gentle diplomat, chief of the Department of State's Division of Latin-American Affairs, author of an authoritative book on Central America...
...breaking plurality of more than 300,000 votes, Mr. Morrow closed a volume of Herodotus he had been reading in his library, made no quotable comment, went to bed.* Somewhere in the ballot-deluge which had nominated him was the first vote of Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr., just 21, studious Amherst son of a scholarly Amherst father...
...Presidents the U. S. has ever had." Says Author Eckenrode: a Democrat in the White House so soon after the Civil War might well have caused more bloodshed. Rutherford Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822, a posthumous child, descendant of sturdy New England yeomen gone pioneering westward. Studious, ambitious, active, Hayes was "of a rather gay nature, a good talker, fond of men and fonder of women." He studied law, practiced it, but was glad when the Civil War came. One of the things he liked about war was freedom from shaving. He started to let his beard...
...buxom, healthy, studious Dutch girl reached the age of 21 last week, celebrated by moving from her town residence at The Hague to an estate called the "House in the Wood." One and all, Dutch newspapers congratulated the young woman, but a few of the very oldest and most aristocratic news organs of Amsterdam and The Hague also dropped respectful hints...
...soon as he was big enough to turn the pinion wheels of a microscope, small and studious Bashford Dean began to study natural history. His interest in armor also began early. When he was six years old he visited the home of one Carlton Gates in Yonkers, stood for half an hour in rapt contemplation of a beautiful Maximilian helmet. Four years later Carlton Gates died, his effects were sold at auction. Ten-year-old Bashford Dean insisted on being taken to the auction, was heartbroken when the cherished helmet went for more money than he could afford. Clutched...