Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endowment of the new chair has been raised by a committee of prominent Connecticut citizens, several of whom are not Harvard graduates. A number of liberal contributors are Yale men. Various patriotic societies, including the D. A. R. and the Sons of the Revolution, assisted in the work of raising the funds needed for this memorial to the great Connecticut patriot of Revolutionary times...
...should stir every drop of blood in the veins of every patriot...
...that his literary preference has been neglected. If one likes poetry--these is poetry of sorts in this Advocate; there is also some of the other sort. If one's preference is biography--he finds in this number a passage from the life of a little-known New York patriot of pre-Revolutionary times. There is also fiction--one very good story, and two others which are by no means bad. Strangely, there is only one essay within the covers of this Advocate, yet it is a charming one. There are articles, of course; the perennial favorites, football and Harvard...
Critic Grattan first cited the eulogies of Mr. Page: "The greatest and noblest American since Lincoln"; "The most heroic American of the War period"; "An intense patriot" (thus Charles W. Eliot, John W. Davis, Admiral Sims, Colonel House, Edward W. Bok, William H. Taft in an ad- dress to the Trustees of the Walter Hines Page School of Inter- national Relations); "A great citizen He gave his life...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm...