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...Burr Alexander (Scripps College, California), Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter (Dean of Northwestern Medical School), Law Dean Roscoe Pound (Harvard). On Wisconsin's staff Dr. Hicks will be in the good company of Experimentalist Alexander Meiklejohn, Law Dean Lloyd Garrison, Agricultural College Dean Chris Lauriths Christenson, Agriculture Professor Asher Hobson, all acquired by Wisconsin since Dr. Frank became president...
...even more than literature, economics was Orage's editorial line. Together with S. G. Hobson, he formulated Guild Socialism in 1912. After the WaR he campaigned, in his magazine and in the flesh, for the Social Credit system of Major C. H. Douglas. Meanwhile he was attending the lectures of Russian Philosopher Peter D. Ouspensky, who bated his breath about a Wise Man, Georges Gurdjieff, who made learned philosophers look like chicken-soup. In the midst of his activities Editor Orage dropped everything, betook himself to the Wise Man's ''Institute for the Harmonious Development...
...hale and hearty yet!" cried wizened "Baby" Rodgers, recalled his mother's statement that he was born "right after" the Union Jack was unfurled in New Zealand by Queen Victoria's doughty Captain Hobson...
...expression, "Hobson's Choice" originated in the stables back of the Bull Hotel (now the hotel garage). Hostler Hobson insisted upon exact rotation of his horses and always told students to "take your choice, as long as you take the one nearest the door...
...great figures of the Spanish-American War only William Randolph Hearst, who headlined the country into war, and the Lindbergh of 1898, Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac in the mouth of Santiago harbor, are alive (Hero Hobson is now a Prohibition and antinarcotic lecturer- TIME, March 2). All the others- Roosevelt, Dewey, Shafter, Leonard Wood, Sampson. Schley, even Col. William Jennings Bryan of the Nebraska Volunteers -have died. Cuban revolutionists live longer. President Machado, General Menocal and Colonel Mendieta are all veterans of Cuba's War of Independence. Even Cosme de la Torriente, Cuba's grave...