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More than any other need of these hurried times is that of calm thinking and sharp differentiations. If this Boston stock broker had looked up in such a dictionary as college teachers often edit the meaning of the word, "socialist", had he studied this notorious legal case, he would never have written such bunk...
THERE are two types of the literary college professor: the stodgy ones who edit, say, the works of George Lillo with compendious notes, of whom all college students have seen far too many specimens, and the sprightly ones who pride themselves on keeping up with the latest vagaries of the inexplicably unscholastic. Stuart, Sherman was one of the best of the second type a man whom Illinois University students revered as if he had been a combination of Doctor Johnson, Barrett Wendell and William Lyon Phelps, and whose directing of the Herald-Tribune Book Review endeared him to that dreadfully...
...time has its publisher or its editor felt entirely free to edit the magazine in that spirit of complete independence which is so necessary to a critical literary magazine...
...York does not care particularly what happens." And then the nice old ladies and other dime spenders read an editorial entitled, "Part Men, Part Goats," by Barton Wood Currie, who came from the New York Evening World to the Country Gentleman and from there in 1920 to edit the Ladies' Home Journal. Said he: "There is a new order of nobility that the press of our great cities and the pink and green pamphleteers of our literati have exalted to the highest place among us almost overnight. The distinguishing symbols of this order are a stubby pair of goat...
James Gordon Bennett invited him to join him in establishing the New York Herald. Greeley declined. Instead, in 1834, aged 23, he began to publish and edit the New Yorker, a weekly literary journal (in no wise connected with the current smart-chart by that name...