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...great hay bonfire was built after the Crimson players had left the field. With its dying embers the throng rushed to the Locker Building where the demonstration was continued for another half hour. "We'll beat Yale" was the outcry which surged up from the crowd incessantly...
...quality"-the threshold of Henry Adams, sardonic New Englander, connoisseur of life and all its arts, a man who said of himself: ". . . as far as he had a function, it was as stable-companion to statesmen, whether they liked it or not." Over the Adams threshold daily came John Hay, "the roving diplomat," Secretary of State to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, Adams' great friend. Here came Clarence King, a professional geologist of rare spirit, who "knew more than Adams did of art and poetry . . . knew America west of the 100th meridian better than anyone . . . knew even women-even...
...this circle, Mr. and Mrs. Lodge were intimates. John Hay had built his house next door; but most of the gatherings (breakfasts) were at 1603-feasts of spirit and intellect in a world where politics constituted but one interest among a score. "Nowhere in the U. S.," says Hay's biographer, "was there then, or has there since been, such a salon." Being in Washington, it was a salon culturally and temperamentally more cosmopolitan than it could have been in contemporary Boston, less worldly, less bizarre than it might have been in contemporary Manhattan...
Western Reserve-in whose history and upbuilding such men as John Hay, U. S. Secretary of State under Roosevelt; Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U. S. President; Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France; Newton D. Baker, onetime U. S. Secretary of War; and Samuel Mather, Cleveland coal and iron man have figured-has specialized principally in the liberal arts. The Case School is chiefly scientific. Where the two overlap, waste motion is now seen. The proposed amalgamation would leave each institution separate autonomy under unified control, would, by extension of their activities, try "to lead higher education...