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Harvard first paused to celebrate its past under fussy old President Josiah Quincy in 1836. The Bicentenary graduating class had 39 members, less than contemporary Dartmouth, Princeton, Union, or Yale. A handful of New England college presidents were invited to be the learned guests of honor. All but President Heman Humphrey of Amherst declined the opportunity to listen to President Quincy's two-hour historical oration. Josiah Quincy was bitterly disappointed that his Bicentennial was less an academic festival than a convivial reunion of Harvardmen. In one form or another this year, the Harvard Tercentenary has been going...
...down on Cape Cod, are proud to have TIME notice our Chatham mural, by Mrs. Wight, but we do wish you might have done a little better by our names. Dr. Worthing is distorted to Northing; and the inimitable Heman Harding, of whom Cape Cod is passionately proud, has to be recognized as Herman. The pictures of Mrs. Harding and Miss Virginia are fine...
...softly whispered that he was effeminate. Democrat Green's retort took the form of a full-page advertisement in the rotogravure section of the dignified Providence Journal. In a dozen different poses he was depicted as the "All-round Man"-lawyer, statesman, soldier, traveler, tennis player, public speaker, heman. Three of the pictures showed muscular Democrat Green stripped to the waist-chopping a tree, wrestling and, over the caption "Builder," heroically lugging stones...
Though soon to become Dictator of Thalia, Hannibal, when Journalist Slocombe first encounters him in Switzerland, is an anarchist of the deepest dye. Though politically a heman, personally he has traits barely infantile. When a girl at his Swiss boarding house repulses his torrid advances, in a pet he plants a dummy bomb under his bed to terrify the boarders, decamps for England. From anarchist lair to lair he jumps. In Paris he meets Luciana, who recognizes the star of fortune burning over his beetling brow. She becomes his mistress, mothers him and his destiny with incomparable tact...
...door heman. (Dartmouth...