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...Pulsifer rather neatly and metaphorically puts it, "before the coming of King Gasoline". To illustrate his point, the author has taken as his example the old seaport of Middlehaven, one time builder and guardian of clipper ships and salt-water heroes; and he has arrayed on one side Caleb Gurney, a character who, but for the pathos of his position and the understanding of the author, would be simply a type "wind-and-rigging" sailor; and on the other the men of country clubs and golf bags, who give libraries as one gives a bone to a dog. Caleb...
...week of casualities, a disorganized Exeter football team will come to Soldiers Field today to face the Freshman football eleven at 2.30. Coach Blake and Trainer Murch of Exeter believe that they will have their regular line up today, but the temporary absences of men like Elliott, quarterback, Gurney, tackle, Downey, end, Weiner, guard, and Brady, halfback, have greatly retarded the team's development. Rearrangements have followed, among them the shifting of Captain Charles worth from center to right guard, and Bell has been shifted to center...
...Johns Hopkins University in 1887, and before coming to Cambridge in 1899 as a lecturer on History, was an instructor and a professor of History in Johns Hopkins and in the University of Wisconsin. In 1902, Mr. Haskins became a professor of History, and ten years later was appointed Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, which position he still holds. For the past 15 years, Professor Haskins has been Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 1918-1919 he was chairman of the Division of Western Europe of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace...
...have taken part in the series so far are: Professor J. L. Lowes G. '03, Professor G. H. Parker '87, Professor F. w. Taussig '79. Associate Professor G. H. Edgell '09, and Assistant Professor H. S. Langfeld. The next speaker will be Professor C. H. Haskins Hon. '08, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; who will speak on the "Mediaeval Student" next Monday...
...Joseph Gurney Cannon, grand old man of Congress, will retire from public life. At the age of 86, having served 23 terms in the House of Representatives, he feels that he has earned the right to spend the rest of his life in the quiet seclusion of Danville, Illinois. Uncle Joe is something more than a politician with an age-record. He is the embodiment of a tradition, a political theory, a technique of party government and discipline that is fast perishing. He represents the Old Guard in the very flower of its maturity, in the palmy days of McKinley...