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...fifty-third summer school of the University, which will last six weeks, will convene one week earlier this year than last,--the opening date being July 2, and the closing, August 11. At the head of the organization, the teaching staff of which will number about 100, is again Professor John Tucker Murray '99 of the English department. There will be about 70 instructors from the University, and about 30 instructors from different sections of the United States...
...interest to Americans is the announcement that various works by American composers have been recommended by the American Board of the International Society to be submitted to the International Jury in Zurich in May, and performed, if accepted, the second week of August in Salzburg at the International Festival. Among the works submitted is a string quartette by Charles Martin Loeffler, an American composer whose fame is international. Mr. Loeffler has won high praise from such a well-known critic as Lawrence Gilman, recently appointed to The New York Tribune as music critic after the death of Mr. Kriebbiel...
...Westmoreland Country Club, Chicago, will play host for the Western Junior Amateur Championship on August...
Hunter, defending titleholder, a semifinalist at Wimbledon two years ago, and the conqueror of Gerald L. Patterson at Seabright last August, never showed semblance of breaking through early in the match. With his title slipping from him in the final set, he stirred himself to the form which served for his defeat of Patterson. Richards, responding with that touch of genius which completes the equipment of a champion, forced his own game one notch higher to win a deuce set and the title...
Married. Lady Northcliffe, widow of Viscount Northcliffe, English newspaper proprietor, to Sir Robert Arundell Hudson, a leader of the Liberal Party. By her remarriage she forfeited part of her inheritance from Lord Northcliffe, who died on August 14 last. It was reported at the time of Lord Northcliffe's death that he wished Lady Northcliffe to marry Sir Robert. The attachment of the two is said to be of 15 years standing, and Lord Northcliffe often urged his wife to secure a divorce, which she refused to do for fear of scandal...