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...Edgett '94, of the Boston Transcript Literary staff, who has followed her works closely commented as follows: "Miss Lowell was America's foremost living poet. Her recent authoritative work on Keats gave her a still greater position in the world of letters. Her marvelous personality was widely known on both sides of the Atlantic...
There was, as always, one freak report. This would have it that the landing was permitted by the defense as part of its strategy and that, immediately after the landing, the Black aircraft annihilated the attacking fleet. But after one startling headline in such eminent papers as the Boston Transcript and The New York World, this freak was withdrawn from public view, without apology...
...spite of what Mark Twain said about statistics as a superlative form of lying, there are times when figures are very impressive--especially if one is left to draw his own conclusions. The Boston Transcript has given such figures of college attendance in this country. "Since the establishment of colleges in the United States," says the Transcript, "there have been graduated, in round numbers, 900,000 men--and at the present moment there are actually in the colleges of the country about 700,000. In other words, there are almost as many students now in the colleges of the land...
...would be erroneous, however, to place too much emphas's upon economic incentives. The very facts of increased competition and increased wealth have made more preminent than ever before another cause for growing college attendance. It will not be too optimistic to interpret the Transcript's figures as evidence in America of a real increased demand for culture for its own sake...
...Caughey Jr. '25, president of the CRIMSON. He will be followed by Mr. Robert Lincoln O'Brien '91. Editor-in-chief of the Boston Herald. Mr. O'Brien became personal secretary to Grover Cleveland shortly after his graduation from college. In 1895 he was Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript and ever since then has been connected with newspaper work. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Pulitzer School of Journalism...