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...largely drudgery: secretary to two governors of Ohio (Asa Bushnell and William McKinley), to a mayor of Columbus; member of a committee to investigate hazing at West Point; state organizer for Teddy Roosevelt's unsuccessful Bull Moose campaign for the presidency in 1912, etc. In a piece called Gentleman from Indiana, Jim has written lovingly and beautifully of his father...
...tinkle. In sudden silence, the Speaker demanded to know who had thrown it. Tall, tawny Tory Major Legge-Bourke rose, bitterly explained he had tossed it at the Foreign Secretary to suggest he should "put on another record." Icily the Speaker declared: "I now direct the honorable and gallant gentleman, because of that act, to leave this House." Palefaced, Legge-Bourke bowed and strode from the chamber. The fact was that neither Morrison nor Legge-Bourke nor any other honorable gentleman had advanced a policy...
...handful of the 745 have become headliners (among them: Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, This Week Editor William Ichabod Nichols), and far more have made the Social Register (23%) than Who's Who in America (8%). After 25 years, the average Harvardman, '26, has become a happy, prosperous gentleman with a goodly share of virtues and some surprising vices...
John E. Rexine '51 delivered the LATIN SALUTATORY DISSERTATION this morning while approximately 95 percent of his audience listened in utter bewilderment. After all, it is said, a gentleman need not know Latin, he needs only to have forgotten it. A summary for the puzzled follows...
...while, the young school barely managed to stay alive. But soon celebrities from overseas began to come to its rescue. Sir Richard Steele sent complete files of the Tatler and Spectator, and Sir Isaac Newton sent a copy of his Principia. Finally, a plump, periwigged gentleman named Elihu Yale, a retired East India merchant and a former governor in Madras, sent the most substantial gift of all: ?562 worth of goods...