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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There lives in Detroit a person, presumably wealthy, who admirably combines an appreciation of the arts with practical generosity. Three years ago this person, name unknown, endowed Michigan University with a fellowship in Creative Arts. Whereupon, Robert Frost, Vermont poet, lived at Ann Arbor for two years, writing, teaching. This last year, Robert Bridges, British laureate, has lived at Ann Arbor, writing, teaching...
...from spoiling his affectionate nickname of "strong, silent, Cal," he has enlarged the sources from which quotations may be drawn by adding Lewis Carroll to the Bible and Shakespeare. Since his speech, more- over, the Democrats and Progressives are no longer in the dark as to his strength. Previously unknown, it is now being estimated from the force of his long boarded, but now freely given entrance. His reserve was the fountain-head of his strength, confirming his supporters in the conviction that he saw all that was going on, and could, if he would, confound his opponents by telling...
Traveling on a train between the towns of Florida and Esmeralda, his party was fired upon by persons unknown...
...Yakuts, who inhabit the region bordering on the Lina River, are a tribe whose origin is unknown. They have lived in this vicinity for many centuries, and their primitive civilization and customs differ entirely from most of the other tribes in that neighborhood...
...last year in an effort to find the amount of money which business men in Princeton lost through cashing students' worthless checks revealed a considerable loss, Harvard students must be more honest according to figures obtained by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday from Harvard Square business men. Forgeries are practically unknown to most of the men interviewed...