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HARVARD M.I.T. Lamb 115-pound Goldsmith Curtin or Keenan 125-pound Bradford Ward 135-pound Wetherwill Hines 145-pound Carey McGoodwin 155-pound Gaughan Lawrence 165-pound Lefthes Smith 175-pound Collins Simmons Heavyweight Jewett...
...post-war men of letters are held up for scrutiny and found wanting. Each failed to realize the task before him, or realizing it, fled from it. The sectionalists, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Eggleston and Cable, did not comprehend the whole. The fugitives, Sarah, Orne Jewett, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, sought sanctuary in trifling worlds of their own. William Dean Howells sounded the right note, but was too limited in experience and ability to be successful. The genteel writers of the nineties merely catered to bourgeois prejudices. Then came the years of hope, the years of progressivism and the muckrakers...
...Local Color: Bret Harte and Sarah Jewett," Professor Matthiessen, Harvard...
...second group of sixteen men follows: R. P. Curtis, Jr., E. W. Dalton, F. E. Denny, O. H. Emmons, P. E. Fox, F. M. Foley, F. G. Jewett, Jr., R. D. Kernan, A. B. McFadden, John Page, Lewis Perry, Jr., Edward Rawson, G. F. Robertson, P. C. Staples, Jr., A. K. Ware, P. L. Wilson...
...YORK TEMPEST-Manuel Komroff-Coward-McCann. On April 12, 1836, Manhattan had something to talk about. Pretty Courtesan Ellen Jewett was found strangled in her room. Circumstantial evidence glared at one Robinson, young man-about-town. Editor James Gordon Bennett himself covered the story for his New York Herald. Author Komroff, changing the names of his protagonists to Oliver Benson and Jane Holden, follows closely the history of the case, but takes it further, deeper than Editor Bennett did. Jane, like many a storybook harlot, was pathological only in having a heart of gold. She gave Benson her true love...