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...like Heywood Broun '10, John Dos Passes '16, Walter Lippmann '10, and Henry Dana '03, are evidence of the liberalism which Harvard fosters, or at least does not quench. When a man comes to Harvard with the instinct of radicalism already developed, he is almost certain to maintain it; when the other type comes, the man with an aristocratic. New England training and a preconceived conservatism, he is almost sure to come in contact with ideas and theories that will give him at least a tolerance of liberalism. He often becomes a liberal himself, and sometimes turns into...
Arthur Lumley, 78, oldtime (1878-88) editor of The Police Gazette and manager of prizefighters (Sullivan, Fitzsimmons the original Jack Dempsey), fell down the steps in a Brooklyn subway station suffered a broken arm, many a bruise. In bed he reminisced. Of the late great Editor Charles Anderson Dana: "And who do you think he brought along with him? Roscoe Conklin, the Senator. They sat up all night at that cockfight." Of John L. Sullivan: "I made John L. sports editor of my sheet [The Illustrated News']. It was handy . . . whenever I wanted to roast anyone I would...
...Union Committee assisting in preparations for the dance. Other members of the dance committee are Robert Wolcott, D. F. Cutler, Jr., G. E. Prouty, Jr., W. W. Prout, Jr., J. F. Ducey, Jr., W. P. Jones, Gordon Palmer, Lewis Iselin, Timothy Putnam, E. W. Dutton, and W. D. Dana...
...natural bent toward politics and writing. College friendship with an ambitious young backwoodsman named Albert J. Beveridge settled him down, helped him choose the goal which he pursued with solemn fixity to his death. The years of reporting and editorial writing under the late great Editors Charles A. Dana and Joseph Pulitzer were a time of learning weapons, storing mental ammunition. As a friend afterward wrote, "He believed that more people would read intelligently and heed the warnings and lessons which he felt inspired to offer through the medium of novels, than they would through the medium of apparently more...
...livestock used to stray over upon the "Glenburney" plantation. Once Miss Merrill was supposed to have shot into a herd of her goats. A strange "red, white & blue" pig also figured in the dispute. The feud between these reclusive neighbors several times overflowed into the local courts. The Dana-Dockery indictments were based principally on fingerprints found in "Glenburney." After being held in jail ten days, Dana and Miss Dockery were released and police continued to arrest every suspicious person in the neighborhood...