Word: historians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guglielmo Ferrero, foremost living Italian historian: "To put war outside the law is a noble and grand idea. It will give great glory to America to have made this immense revolution in history, if she succeeds...
...Kaiser's Cup by crossing from Sandy Hook to England in 12 days, 4 hrs. 1 min., 19 sec. This year, this same Atlantic, repainted many times and retrimmed, has as skipper the direct descendant of two U. S. Presidents - Charles Francis Adams, 62, brother of the late historian Henry Adams. Skipper Adams, yachtsmen agree, is the canniest amateur salt alive. He sailed the Resolute in the last defense of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock. He is also treasurer of the Corporation of Harvard College and a prosperous Boston lawyer. Once, when...
Bowers. Comfortably cool in this igloo in the desert, Democrats confidently expected a feast of oratory. Traditionally, the party's sessions have been marked by eloquent appeals to the memory of Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. This year the keynote speech of Claude Gernade Bowers, historian and editorial writer for the New York Evening World, was awaited with more than usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation...
Frederick Austin Ogg, historian ("frontier" school...
Such a find by Professor Morison or whoever it was that discovered this important biographical material--is one of the most rewarding and important tasks of historians and biographers. If every Harvard President could have left such self-revealing notes, to be found by the writers of Harvard's history, that historian's task would be even more thrilling than it is. The biographer of President Eliot--Henry James '99--may welcome the discovery; and future biographers of present and future presidents may look long through "miscellaneous papers in Widener" for pencilled notes of lectures. But few of such notes...