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Long after he is gone Stanford will vividly remember its Grand Old Man??? his Thursday evenings at-home in a big firelit living room which he specially rebuilt to make room for more friends and conversation; the adult atmosphere he fostered on the campus ("College men should marry college women, as they are more nearly mental equals. ... A man sees the best women he'll ever see while in college"); his word-coining ("quacktitioner," "pluviculture," "sciosophy" meaning organized ignorance); his abhorrence of liquor, tobacco, ignorance, arrogance, vulgarity (he said some people should write a "V" before their names); a fine...
Abraham Lincoln, having been reinterred 16 times, had reason last week to turn once more in his grave. Just before his 122nd birthday last week there was published his 112th biography, Lincoln: The Man??? by Poet Edgar Lee Masters. Unlike his Illinois neighbor Poet Carl Sandburg, whose Lincoln biography is a labor of love, morose Poet Masters pictures the Emancipator not as a warm-hearted prairie prophet but as a cold, lazy fanatic. Kansas-born, Poet Masters spent his boyhood at Petersburg, Ill,., went to Knox College (Galesburg), grew up swaddled in the Lincoln legend which he now repudiates...
THIS PURE YOUNG MAN???Irving Fineman?Longmans, Green...
...India were great, strapping John Bulls, guessing that this physique was due to meat, Mr. Gandhi resolved to violate the most sacred religious tenet of Hinduism: he ate a steak. His stomach, his mind and his soul quickly experienced a most excruciating triple torture. Thereafter the poor great man???the much-to-be-sympathized-with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?resolved that even to free Mother India, dearer to him than life, he could not pollute himself with meat...
...black, blue, yellow and pink of the cavalry. Feldmar-schall Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks, his dry, jockeylike figure erect as ever despite its years. The long-necked, chinless figure escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged man???whom he had tutored and drilled so long, Fredrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was to have been a Kaiser. With them also came the other onetime princes?Eitel Friedrich, like a bully top-sergeant; Oscar, the simple farmer; August Wilhelm, the dreamy painter. There was a lull as they reached their...