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Last week, many people recalled these facts when Dr. Marion L. Burton, Michigan's President, announced that the anonymous person in Detroit was continuing the fellowship; that Robert Frost, having grown fond of Michigan during his two-year visit, had accepted a permanent membership in Michigan's Literary Faculty, beginning next year, when he will leave his present position on the staff of Amherst College...
...richest man in Central Europe and much beloved by the Viennese whom he assisted financially on sundry and odd occasions. He was also a patron of the arts and for some time supported the famed producer Max Reinhardt, for whom he built a theatre. So fond was he of appearing in the public limelight that he lived with all the pomp and ceremony of royalty, even traveling in the Kaiser Karl's private parlor car, which he bought...
...Captain Lascelles, assistant private secretary to Lord Renfrew, said that his lordship had been reading The Life and Letters of Walter Hines Page, and that he was very fond of Mark Twain, had read some volumes twice. The secretary also said that numerous presents, ranging from chewing gum upwards, had been sent to him by firms and individuals. The rigid royal rule of not accepting gifts from strangers was adhered to and the gifts were all returned by registered mail, allegedly costing the Baron no trifling sum for postage. It was stated that from 10 to 40 letters 'daily...
...younger days was a tennis player of no mean repute. In 1896 he lifted the M. C. C. and Queen's Club tennis prize. His recreative moments in his later years have been, however, more taken up with flyfishing, a sport of which he has always been fond...
...Miguel de Unamuno was born nearly 60 years ago, and is a scion of an old Basque family. The Basques speak a language foreign to Spaniards; they are passionately fond of freedom and independence−as witness their history; in battle, whether of deeds or words, they are brave and tenacious...