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Those selected to act as honorary pallbearers are President Lowell, J. F. Moors, member of the corporation of the University, C. R. Crane, who was a member of the special diplomatic commission to Russia in 1917; G. P. Gardner '77 and T. J. Coolidge '15, relatives of Professor Coolidge; C. H. Haskins, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, Professor E. F. Gay and Professor R. B. Merriman '96, who will represent the Department of History. W. R. Castle Jr. '00, of the Department of State, W. C. Lane '81, Librarian, J. D. Greene '96, Professor J. B. Munn...
...Crane will define Democracy in a lecture to be held under the auspices of the Liberal Club in Paine Music Hall at 4 o'clock today...
After graduating from Wesleyan, where Dr. Crane was a prominent athlete, he studied at Harvard and Boston University. He is known as a very forceful speaker and has recently lectured at more than 30 colleges in America...
...prize contest conducted so as to determine who had written the best poem about Lindbergh. The three prizewinning poems, and the 97 next best now appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded to child-prodigy Nathalia Crane. She expressed 14-year old enthusiasm in a thoroughly competent narrative poem, The Wings of Lead, pointing, in lines that have a bright startling thread of childish ingenuity drawn through them, to ". . . The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead." Second prize went to Poet Thomas Hornsby...
Died. Professor Emeritus Thomas Frederick ("Teefy") Crane, 83, who had been associated with Cornell University since 1868; at Deland, Fla. Undergraduates & alumni have chanted songs about "Teefy," and at each commencement hundreds of his former pupils have grasped his hand. Some years after his retirement, he delivered a rousing 45-minute midnight address before an alumni reunion. For two brief periods he was Acting President of Cornell...