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...plain man-in-the-street sometimes feels that William Shakespeare never existed at all as a real person, or that perhaps he actually was Francis Bacon or an incarnation of Ignatius Donnelly in disguise. Most experts agree, however, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was the Shakespeare of the Plays and Sonnets which are still the highest peak in the jagged outline of English literature. But there remain many mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary...
...concentrated, but on the Varsity this year one might almost say it is limited to those three or four; if part of the first half of the batting order gets on bases, it's long odds if the lower half can show enough stuff to bring home the bacon. Failure to bring men home was one of the main reasons for losing to Tufts. This weakness is further accentuated by the total lack of pinch hitters...
Congressman Robert Bacon of Long Island was almost the only active opponent to the passage of the McDuffie Bill in the House. He declared that an amendment of the Constitution was required to relinquish colonial possession and that the United States had a moral duty to continue her occupation. Moral duties and constitutionalities have little weight with Senator Smoot's sugar lobby, however, and considering the obvious desirability of increasing local and Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian...
...Daniel Needham '13, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Safety, in discussing the bill which is being sent to the Legislature this week by Governor Joseph B. Ely and provides for an amalgamation of all the municipal police forces throughout the state. This bill is supported by President Lowell, Gasper G. Bacon '08, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts and Sam B. Warner '12, professor of Penal Legislation and administration...
Left By Elizabeth Bacon Custer (TIME, April 17), widow of General George Armstrong ("Last Stand") Custer: $101,492, to relatives and Vassar College; a white towel certified to be the first Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution...