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Last night the Freshman lineup was changed, and today the yearling crew took the river in the following seatings: bow, L.C. Farley, Jr.: 7, H.F. Atherton, Jr.; 6, W.S. Burton; 6, W.W. Prout; 4, R.D. Kernan; 3, R.S. Clarke: 2. R.S. Wolcott; stroke, Arthur Beane; coxswain, H.K. McVickar. The first-year men confined their activities to long paddles, rowing six miles this morning and eight miles this afternoon...
...Second Freshman crew defeated St. Mark's on Saturday by 1 1-4 lengths and will have the same boating for this race. The Harvard seating will be: stroke, W. D. Locke; 7, H. F. Atherton, Jr.; 6, W. S. Burton; 5, C. F. Brown, III; 4, J. E. Gardner, Jr.; 3, P. S. Weld; 2, R. S. Wolcott; bow, G. A. Matteson; coxswain, W. E. Howell. The Rollins boating will be as follows: stroke, E. N. Jenka; 7, J. T. Cadmore; 6, J. C. Williams; 5, H. P. Abbott. Jr.; 4, E. H. Bonclli Jr.; 3, N. B. Westen...
...Whiz!' emotion" were the watchwords. Lots to drink (though not for Hearst; he was and is a sipper of fine wines), lots to spend, cannon crackers, yacht rides-Hearst's staff were his familiars, and his paper's contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first appeared "Casey at the Bat'' and "The Man with the Hoe." (A Negro doorman turned away Rudyard Kipling when...
...Gertrude Atherton complains that you did not review her Adventures of a Novelist when it appeared last year (TIME, March 27). And she adds that it may be just as well, as you "probably would have said something nasty about...
Perhaps, as I was, you were a little frightened off on Mrs. Atherton's book. Although I prepared advertising on it, for several months nothing could persuade me to read it. But a long illness last summer gave me plenty of time to tackle a thick biography. And after reading it-it took me four days during which I hated to lay it down-I wrote Mrs. Atherton a letter. Among other things I asked her how she could write such a long book and retain its vibrancy to the very end. In the very next mail from California...