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Birthday, Poet Edwin ("The Man with the Hoe") Markham: 84. Said he to Princeton University's English Department, his birthday hosts: "When you finish a good poem, you must be able to say 'ah,' as though you were hit in the solar plexus...
Birthdays. Edwin Markham (The Man with the Hoe), 83; Clarence Darrow, 78; May Robson, 70; Adolf Hitler, 46 (see p. 15); Shirley Temple...
...Today Markham evinces as active an interest and is as fell versed in undergraduate activities and the problems of the administration as he was in 1907 when he was elected an overseer of the University. He served as an overseer for six years and during that time became a close friend of President Lowell...
...Markham was among those who conceived the idea of the associated alumni clubs and offered the impetus for the founding of the second alumni club (St. Louis, Missouri). He has been a commanding influence in many activities of the University and was among the founders of the business school...
Continuing his commentary of contemporary problems of the University he said, "I would emphasize Spanish." Though he sets a high valuation on the knowledge of Latin, Mr. Markham advocates making the Latin requirement optional and placing more importance on the modern languages. Pointing out that English serves as an international language in most continental affairs, he stressed the need for a knowledge of Spanish: "It is in Mexico and South America that our bread is buttered...