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...Story. This is the story of the education of Fremont McConkey, Hawkeye?how he and the State of Iowa grew up together. The bare-foot boy, born in a sod hut, who assimiliated a curious education from back numbers of The New York Weekly, The Lives of the Presidents and the Victorian poets, became a leading citizen?a prosperous, successful newspaper editor. The waste and beautiful prairies were civilized into the richest farming land in the world. In some six decades the people of that region had bridged the gulf between a life like that of the border ballads?...
...Author. (John) Herbert Quick, like Fremont McConkey, was born in Iowa (Oct. 23, 1861), reared on a farm, educated in country schools. He has had a varied career as teacher, lawyer, associate editor of La Follette's Weekly, editor of Farm and Fireside and free-lance writer. He fought the boodlers of Sioux City, was three times nominated for its Mayor and once elected. In 1920 he was Chairman of the Commission in Charge of Affairs in the Far East of the American Red Cross. He now lives in West Virginia. Until the appearance of Vandemark's Folly (widely praised...
Noyes '89, and McConkey '88, coached the Yale nine at the field yesterday afternoon...
...Cape May baseball team will be composed of Hyneman, U. of P., pitcher; Lansing, U. of P., catcher: Dana, Princeton, 1st base; McConkey, Yale, 2d base; Price, Princeton, 3d base; Campbell, Harvard, short stop; and Durell, Princeton, Hunt, Yale, Cahill, U. of P., and Tate, of Holy Cross, in the field...
...induced to alter his decision, Dalzell, '91, will pitch. He was substitute pitcher last year and can be relied upon to do good work, although he is a trifle wild in his delivery. McBride will again cover first base, McClintock, second base, and Noyes, (captain), third base. McConkey plays a brilliant game at short stop, and he will without much doubt be retained in that position. Calhoun, '91, will play again in the field, together with G. McClintock, '90, and the change pitcher or catcher. During the winter the candidates, twenty in number, will train under the direction of Captain...