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...other day Arthur Sampson of the "Herald" wrote that Harvard is not yet so "smooth and precise" as it was last year mainly because "Vernon Struck's clever faking ability is missed...
...public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley had ventured close enough to sight a Spanish cruiser lying in plain view near the entrance to Santiago harbor, Admiral William T. Sampson determined to bottle up the enemy fleet by sinking a ship across the narrow harbor entrance. Because of his knowledge of ship construction, Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, nine years out of Annapolis, was chosen for the attempt. With seven volunteers aboard the stripped old collier Merrimac* he steamed up to the harbor...
...evening of January 25, 1873, ten members of the Class of 1874 assembled in the rooms of Mr. Cirrk. These were Eugene Nelson Aston, Samuel Belcher Clarke. Thomas Corlies, Frank Child Faulkner, George it win Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Henry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson...
...Windsor, Ont. But Canadian law permitted the immigration of no slaves. So Lucian Fletcher married dusky Mary, settled down in Windsor's Negro district. In 1861 the Canadian census recorded the Fletcher household as consisting of Lucian. "one washerwoman, Mary Fletcher," and four pickaninnies: Sally. Moses. Maria, Sampson. Shortly thereafter a tax list reported Mary as "Mrs. Fletcher, widow and free-holder...
...naturalism, The Life of Reason. Although Santayana himself had declared that he was no poet, comparing himself to Don Quixote, the Spanish-American War aroused him to "the Dionysiac frenzy and impassioned tenderness" that he considered essential for true poetry. When the Spanish Fleet at Santiago was destroyed; Admiral Sampson made the "boorish jest" of calling the victory a Fourth of July present to the U. S. people. Santayana wrote Spain in America as an answer. The poem is a lament for Spain's "sadness and dishonor," a moving and eloquent cry for a marriage of the two cultures...