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...scholarly Life of Sidney Colvin; the stupidest, an interpretation of the poet by Prof. H. Clement Notcutt of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Other famed men of letters who have tried unsuccessfully to write the truth about Keats are: Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, James Russell Lowell, Stephen Brooke, the Earl of Belfast, Lord Houghton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey. In 1853, Keats was included in The Lives of the Illustrious; in 1857, he achieved the severe immortality of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Three generations of Dodges have interested themselves in educational and relief work in the Near East. William Earl Dodge, father of Cleveland H. Dodge, was the first President of the American College at Beirut, a position now filled by his grandson, Bayard Dodge, on a salary of $1.00 a year. Miss Grace Dodge, sister of Cleveland, was President of the Constantinople Woman's College until her death; while a daughter is the wife of George W. Huntington, who is Vice President of Robert College...
...From Earl Grey, British statesman, a former patient of Dr. Wilmer's, a check; from J. P. Morgan, $100,000; from George F. Baker and George F. Baker Jr., $100,000; from Frank Munsey, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Julius Rosenwald, Joseph E. Widener, Felix M. Warburg, Samuel Sachs, Benjamin Stern, Mrs. Henry R. Rea, James Speyer and other contributors, came generous gifts...
...verseform after the country which lies just west of Tipperary, is not known. But the limerick was developed and popularized by Edward Lear 80 or 90 years ago. He was a young artist of 20 who had just published some colored plates of the rarer Psittacidae (parrots). The 13th Earl of Derby went up to London thereupon and lured Lear to go down to Knowsley to draw Derby's private menagerie. While there, he wrote some poems for the delectation of his patron's young grandson, the 15th Earl (to be). These included the first limericks of record and were...
...route to Andover the Freshmen elected Thorndike Dudley Howe 1E.S. of Boston as captain. The winning 1928 wrestlers were Green and Captain Howe, and the remaining members of the team were C. C. Carson, Frederick Hedges, C. C. Goodrich and Earl Dash...