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...lifelong Republican, was nominated for President of the United States in 1872 by the Democrats. On Oct. 30 of that year Mrs. Greeley died. On Nov. 5 Ulysses S. Grant "won 286 electoral votes to Greeley's 66. On Nov. 7, the Tribune announced: "The undersigned resumes the editorship of the Tribune, which he relinquished on embarking on another line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be his endeavor to make this a thoroughly independent journal, treating all parties and political movements with judicial fairness and candor, but counting the favor and deprecating the wrath...
...Princeton in 1771 he supported the popular cause during the Revolution, in his prose and poetry engaging at the same time in his near-farming adventures. In 1790 Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, appointed him translator to the State Department. At the same time he took over the editorship of the "National Gazette", through the medium of which he violently opposed Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists...
...with no small gratification that, at the close of 28 years of editorship, I am so fortunate as to be able to entrust the high honor and unblemished character of this American institution to one so keenly sensible of his obligation and so admirably equipped to maintain its splendid tradition as is Mr. Mahony...
...Harvard last week remedied this curriculum hiatus by establishing a new chair of "dynamic and abnormal psychology." Dr. Morton Prince* will fill the chair next fall, he of the sleepy-seeming eyes and the insinuating voice. At 72 he is withdrawing from his Boston practice, but not from the editorship of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. In academic life he is certain to have large classes, for his plans are to teach not alone the causes and the complex descriptions of psychopathic conditions, but also the cures* so far as present knowledge and his ingenuity can suggest such. He will...
...science and modern literature. He entered business, but at 23 became a proofreader for the Newcastle Chronicle. Within six weeks he was writing some of that paper's leading editorials. Contributions to the national reviews brought him wider notice, a position on the London Telegraph and the editorship, in 1905, of the Weekly Outlook. Three years later Northcliffe snapped him up for the Sunday Observer, which Garvin transformed into a magazine-newspaper with 250,000 circulation...