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CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR. by Edward Chase Kirkland. 256 pages. Harvard University...
Charles Francis Jr. was an Adams who spent his life refusing to conform. Edward Kirkland, professor emeritus of American history at Bowdoin College, deftly exposes the reasons why. He concludes that while Adams is little remembered today, he was the most brilliant Adams of a generation in which the family's genius flowered. However, his superior talents made him impatient and irascible. "He resented having been born young," Professor Kirkland says. He also resented having been born an Adams, and in his 60s he formally stated why this was so: "In plain language, I do not like...
...time he died in 1915 at the age of 79, he had become such a complete victim of the family compulsion to put words on paper that he had even written his autobiography. As Adams autobiographies go, Charles's proved less than scintillating. It remained for Professor Kirkland to provide a properly engrossing study of a remarkable tycoon...
James Nelson Goodsell, Latin American Correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, will speak on "Latin America: Hemisphere in Ferment" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland JCR. The speech is sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council
Quincy and Kirkland might also make their bids for the House championship if they can continue to build momentum. Both Donald Epstein, Quincy House Athletic Secretary, and John French, Kirkland House Athletic Secretary, feel their team's improvement since the beginning of the season gives them a psychological advantage, over Eliot...