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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HAYS HAMMOND-Farrar & Rinehart...
...name of John Hays Hammond means something to men-in-the-street of three continents, but probably not one in ten knows just what or why. Forty years ago Boer schoolboys, London clerks, Nevada miners knew the name well. For in 1896 John Hays Hammond, a prisoner under sentence of death in Pretoria Gaol, was a world headliner. From a news point of view, that was the apex of his career. But Convict Hammond has lived to tell a much lengthier, triumphantly anticlimactic tale. Last week he celebrated his Both birthday by publishing his autobiography. Oldster Hammond's report...
...Author Hammond's father was a Forty-Niner (which gives the same cachet to a Californian that a Mayflower-immigrant ancestor does to an Easterner) but not by his own choice: he was sent to San Francisco as an army officer. Young John grew up in an atmosphere of horses, guns and gold-mining. Says he: "I suppose I never was a tenderfoot." As his father wanted him to get an Eastern education, to Yale's Sheffield Scientific School he went. There he was a fair student, an outstanding athlete, captained the football and baseball teams, picked...
Professor Mason Hammond defends the Latin requirement for an A.B. degree by proving beyond all possibility of refutation that Latin is a cultural language, that Roman history throws a tremendous light on the history of today, and is in itself very valuable and important in the history and civilization of the world. But who learns enough Latin to read more than a couple of great works of old so slowly and painfully that only disgust remains? And who learns Roman history in the Latin tongue anyway? And who ever reads the thousands of Christian writers of Latin during the succeeding...
...Other recipients: Herbert Hoover (1928); John Hays Hammond...