Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert ("Dutch") Leonard, one-time Detroit baseball player, recently gave or sold certain letters to Byron Bancroft Johnson, president of the American League and to Judge Landis, baseball commissioner. Last week the letters were published; scandal flared. It seems, from Leonard's "grudge" testimony and from the letters, that Tyrus Cobb, Tristram Speaker, Joseph Wood and Leonard agreed that Detroit should win the ball game of Sept. 24, 1919, from Cleveland, and that they four would bet on it. Cleveland had second place in the league clinched; Detroit could be allowed to win the game and gain third place...
...contributors are educators of national prominence. Hitherto unpublished letters exchanged between George Herbert Palmer '69, Professor-Emeritus, and Dr. Eliot are included. On one page college and church pay the late President homage in tributes by Bishop William Lawrence '71, Arthur Twining Hadley, President of Yale University, and Byron Satterlee Hurlbut '87, Professor of English in the University...
...death, diet and various conventions including matrimony which he soon voices, it comes evident that our hero is Poet Shelley, until now supposed to have been drowned, recovered and cremated on the Leghorn beach. This identity is masked, however, for the fiction's sake, under a name Lord Byron used to call his lonely-hearted friend, Shiloh...
...late President Emeritus were made accessible through the kindness of Dr. Palmer, Henry Wyman Holmes, '03 Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Paul Henry Hanus, Harvard's first professor of Education, Bishop William Lawrence '71, Byron, Satterlee Hurlbut '87, Professor of English, and Arthur Twining Hadley, former president of Yale University, have written essays for the Memorial issue. A reproduction of the Charles Hopkinson portrait presented to the University by the students of Harvard College on the occasion of Eliot's ninetieth birthday, March...
...late Commander John Rodgers, hero of the Navy flight last year (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), in a PN9 from California to Hawaii. After Commander Rodgers' ironic death (TIME, Sept. 6), the leadership had passed to Flight Commander Harold T. Bartlett, son of a Connecticut schoolmaster, seconded by Lieut. Byron J. Connell, son of a Monongahela River lockmaster. With these two in the planes numbered for convenience 1 and 2, flew five others, including veterans of the transatlantic flight of the NC-4, the Hawaiian flight and René Fonck's catastrophe...