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The Sun is the unbending patriarch of Baltimore, and acutely conscious of the dignity and the responsibilities of venerable old age. Like a wise old uncle exercising his seniority, it tells Baltimoreans what to do, and Baltimoreans apparently listen. Faced with a perplexing maze of 20 municipal bond issues in...
Knowing & Being. Whether or not the "moral dimension" enters teaching at Notre Dame is up to the 398 lay teachers (including some 60 Protestants and several Jews) and the 89 priest or brother teachers. In the classes of Historian Aaron Abell, a Catholic, "the Christian ethic is not stressed at...
No Soliciting. While Abell lived, no Sun reporter ever got a byline, no advertisement was ever solicited-merchants had to walk in with the copy and the cash.
Abell was willing to catalogue municipal flaws ("Anybody in want of a dead pig can find one in Calvert Street"), but he largely ignored politicians as low types ranking somewhat beneath Baltimore's criminal element.
Abell dreamed of a time when Baltimore would be the nation's biggest seaport and the Sun the most famous paper in the U.S. Baltimore never made it, but long after Abell's death in 1888, it seemed for a while that the Sun might actually achieve his...