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...gallery to hear Edwin Booth play Shakespeare. "Outwardly seedy, hungry, pale and lonely, I inhabited palaces and spoke with kings." When his money was just about gone he got a job lecturing at the Boston School of Oratory, met literary tycoons, got another job reviewing books for the august Transcript. But even after he had become an accepted shepherd on Boston's Mt. Parnassus Garland was a Western boy, had more than a tinge of the Western radical in him. He considered Atheist Robert Ingersoll "our greatest orator," and fell hard for Single-Taxer Henry George. Few U. S. writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fusilier* | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...housing arrangement but that, he would, moreover, answer any questions which they might offer, in other words, that he would consent to be interviewed, it was conceded that a new day had dawned, in Harvard's relations with the newspapers and those who work for them. -Boston Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Gentlemen of the Press" | 9/26/1930 | See Source »

...games by the intensity of their gaze and the power of their lungs is not exalted at Harvard, firstly, because such pressure does not seem an especially admirable test of inward spirit, and secondly, because the idea that games can be so won is ninetenths a fallacy. Boston Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Root Hog or Die! | 9/24/1930 | See Source »

There is sound common sense as well as a notable feeling for fair play expressed in the Transcript editorial of last evening which concludes that "a high sense of justice would seem to admit that Mr. Delacey should not go to jail." In calling upon Governor Allen to exercise his power of executive clemency the Boston paper expresses the sentiment of a large majority of those who have followed the details of the Dunster House Book Shop case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAVE FAITH IN MASSACHUSETTS | 5/29/1930 | See Source »

...also jockeys on their mounts, polo teams, small circuses. For there should rally from schoolhouse and academy, from seminary, college and university, the myriads of "ponies" that down through the ages the schoolboy has ridden roughshod among the singing lines of Vergil. The Columbia State quoted in the Boston Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Thundering Herd | 5/6/1930 | See Source »

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