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...teaches its warriors the virtue of utility, simple methods. Modern architects expound the same virtues. Perhaps the fact that many of them fought in the World War is significant. In November 1918, John Wellborn Root, Captain with the U. S. Engineer Corps in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, was wounded near Nancy. John Augur Holabird, later to become his architectural partner, was a West Pointer, served as Major and later as Lieutenant Colonel of Field Artillery...
...would have remained for the nobler, the better thing?" His heredity predisposed him to tuberculosis and alcoholism while enteritis, syphilis, weak eyes were potential added maladies. His deafness, believes Author Rolland, was due to overworked ears. Beethoven died of cirrhosis of the liver. He scorned the feeble, ignorant, baseborn, wellborn, and those who loved him. His most devoted friends were "instruments on which I play when I please." To the kind Lichnowsky he wrote: "Prince, what you are, you are by the accident of birth; what I am. I am of myself. There are and there will be thousands...
Elected. Eugene R. Black, onetime president of the Atlanta Trust Co., to be governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank; to succeed Maximilian Bethune Wellborn, retired after 13 years as governor...
...where he finds Justice Overdo and Waspe, who has been sent there for fighting. The stupid watchmen get into a fight with a harmless madman, and the distinguished culprits escape. This act is further enlivened by a fight between two gallants, Quarlous and Winwife, for the hand of Grace Wellborn...
...Hale '10Puppy, C. C. Rausch '09Pocher, F. L. Baker '09Costardmonger, J. W. Baker '08Mousetrap-Man, F. S. Howe '08Corncutter, R. H. Smith '10Citizens at the Fair, R. E. Hoguet '08 H. C. Broun '10Mrs. Littlewit, L. B. Packard '09Dame Purecraft, N. B. Cole '09Dame Overdo, L. F. Black '09Grace Wellborn, L. E. Matteson '08Joan Trash, P. E. Illman '09Ursula, H. P. Breed...