Word: laughlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laurence Laughlin's article on "Roosevelt at Harvard" in the current Review of Reviews is of peculiar interest in view of the bubbling of the political pot at the University. The nimble-tongued speakers and scornful undergraduate writers who have issued challenge and counter-challege, formed club and counter-club in an effort to popularize Coolidge. Davis or La Follette might well look to Roosevelt as a model of conduct for the politically minded gentlemen at Harvard. In fact, however, he would give them slight inspiration...
...true that the future President took a course in political economy while an undergraduate, but Dr. Laughlin looks in vain for suggestions of those qualities which later made him famed beyond his classmates. "The case for academic training as a preparation for politics," he concludes, "is not a strong one, except so far as the university may possibly work for character rather than for scholarship." There is certainly no hint in this biography that Roosevelt, who seven years after graduation was Republican candidate for Mayor of New York, ever participated in what political activity was then known about the Yard...
...comers at the Longwood Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) that the national doubles wreath ought to hang on the Golden Gate beside Helen Wills' national singles, doubles and Olympic foliage and the numerous, though more withered, prizes of Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy, Maurice E. Mc-Laughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin...
...Tilden II.," "R. N. Williams," the unfamiliar name of Fritz Mercur, of Philadelphia, undergraduate of Lehigh University. Twelve years ago the Longwood spectators blinked at the dazzling play of a tall young Californian, until then unheralded, unsung. The engraver's instructions that summer were "Maurice Mc-Laughlin...
...Immediately following his nomination, congratulatory telegrams began to reach Mr. Coolidge from all over the world. In the first batch of messages was one from Irwin B. Laughlin, U. S. Minister at Athens. William Howard Taft expressed his joy by telephone...