Word: algers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aren't trying to write a modern Horatio Alger story, but just refuting this story and incidentally filling up this space; and incidentally again, football isn't necessarily the hardest extra-curiricular activity there is. There are others that take up almost as much time and run throughout the year--publications, dramatics, P. B. H., Glee Club. These go from September to June and no great cry about the awful amount of time...
...brief handwritten autobiography of the noted "dime novelist," Boratio Alger '52, written while he was a student, is also on exhibit in Widener with a collection of historic relics of the past century of student life at Harvard...
...Alger '36, R. W. Anderson '39, W. W. Austin '36, D. W. Ballard '39, P. G. Bamberg '38, L. Bernstein '39, H. L. Blackwell '39, A. R. Borden '39, E. Bostwick '39, R. D. Brewer '39, E. J. Burke '36, G. N. Calkins 3L., E. D. Chase '39, I. H. Chase '39, D. S. Cheever '39, R. C. Cochrane '38, E. D. Congdon '38, F. S. Crawford 1G., D. M. Danner '39, H. N. Dillard...
...from their authors' profession, these two first novels had little in common. Spring Storm was not a novel of ideas but a simpleminded, affectionate tale of nonage in Nebraska. Though critics might well say the narrative creaked and that it was peopled by wooden marionettes out of Horatio Alger, they also found that its mixture of old-fashioned naivete and shrewdness had genuine charm...
...call its "Third-of-a-Century" anniversary last year, the company was primarily a vegetable packer with soup as a sideline. Publicity was largely confined to the personal activities of Colonel Phillips, who is a sedulous hunter, a determined Republican and a firm believer in the virtues of Horatio Alger. On one occasion when a Texas friend lost his favorite dog, Colonel Phillips dispatched a "blue-blooded" Irish setter to replace the loss, shipping the animal in a special plane piloted by "America's Flying Stenographer." Even better publicized was his wager of a diamondback terrapin dinner that Walter...