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...Hagedorn and Hillyer Replace Frost...
...Herman Hagedorn '07 will deliver an Ode to Harvard at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs tomorrow morning, while Robert Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, follows suit at the Phi Beta Kappa exercises in the evening...
...that a Montana-born financier, William Boyce Thompson, beginning his career as a small mining promoter, soon found himself involved in politics that had international ramifications, and before the end of his life had played a spirited-and unsuccessful-part in the greatest historic event of modern times. Hermann Hagedorn, in a friendly and somewhat romantic biography of Thompson, succeeds in showing how the abrupt widening of Western financial and intellectual horizons created confusions unlimited, bred political and moral dilemmas that robbed Thompson's triumph of all personal satisfaction...
...first business years, so unexciting that Biographer Hagedorn fills in the gaps with wordy descriptions of Montana scenery, gave him little experience for the great problems he was to face: he ran a coal yard, made about $5,000 a year, married quietly and happily, did a little gambling in mining claims on the side. Inspired by the reckless career of F. Augustus Heinze, who was matching wits with Butte copper kings at the age of 21, Thompson traveled East to peddle his claims. Wall Street would not listen, State Street was almost as inhospitable, and he was nearly...
...bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes and, as one of the greatest gamblers of his time, discharged them for gambling. He collected minerals, built beautiful homes, but remained dissatisfied, constantly groped for guidance with writers and thinkers whose intellectual stature Author Hagedorn seems prone to exaggerate...