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...know him. . . as a lonely figure riding of a morning through Rock Creek Park, wearing an immense sombrero, kid gloves, buff waistcoat and an old riding coat. The clothes fit the personality of the wearer. Sensible, unostentatious, efficient, with an occasional outburst of color in waistcoat...
...latest wearer of the green uniform of the Academie des Beaux Arts, one of the five subdivisions of the ancient Institut de France, is J. L. Forain, famous cartoonist of Le Figaro. He was a pupil of Honore Daumier, greatest of all users of the satiric brush of the political cartoonist. Daumier was a great artist from any point of view. Forain has never equalled him, but his position is very important, not only in journalism, but in " straight" etching and painting as well...
...served as Commander-in-Chief of the Franco-British forces in Italy, and is the wearer of the Cross of the Legion of Honour and the Medaille Militaire...
...graduate students at Cornell have decided to wear caps and gowns, following the old usage as to cut of gown and color of hood to distinguish dergee and college of wearer...
...that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly; and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer...