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Francis W. Hunnewell '02, research associate, and Charles A. Weatherby '97 (formerly curator) at the Gray Herbarium are removing from the collections the thousands of type, or originals specimens from which species were described, that they may be concentrated and ready for moving in case need should arise. The hunting out of these historic specimens will require several weeks
Other appointments simultaneously approved were those of Archibald T. Davidson, professor of Choral Music, as curator of the Isham Memorial Library, and of Francis W. Hunnewell '02 as research associate of the Gray Herbarium...
Founder Joseph William Gray was a testy little Jeffersonian who declared in the first scrawny issue of the Plain Dealer that "the stupid fool who cannot, in this age of thrilling events, 'throw some fire into his writings ought to throw his writings into the fire.' " Cleveland was then a mudhole of 6,000 population and six newspapers, including the Eagle-Eyed News Catcher. Editor Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came...
...Civil War Gray's nephew by marriage, John Stephenson, turned the Plain Dealer into a roaring copperhead sheet. The small remains were expensively pieced together by red-bearded William Wirt Armstrong, who supported Andrew Johnson, fought the 14th and 15th Amendments, opposed woman suffrage on the grounds that it would turn them into "political swagerees, with a love of wine, whiskey and lager beer...
Neither the war nor the paper shortage have yet touched the Harvard Advocate, and the December issue, despite its grimmer gray exterior, presents the old material in the old way with only a touch less than its usual technical excellence. Marvin Barertt's lead story, "Home Life," is a particularly skillful sketch of a degenerate family, and its distilled essence of moral and physical decay, engenedered, by apparently objective description of voluptuous decadence, savors strongly of the works of William Faulkner. Unfortunately, however, the author has little of Faulkner's control or understanding of the literary dynamite with which...