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In 1798 he was made U. S. consul at Tunis. In 1804 he became "Navy Agent to the Barbary States" and as such led his heterogeneous force from Alexandria, Egypt, through the Libyan Desert and attacked Derna from the landward side while U. S. gunboats under Commodore Samuel Barron bombarded...
Harvard has never felt chagrin at its Class of 1910 which featured such celebrities as Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Economist Stuart Chase. The Class of 1911, however, sported so few notables 25 years...
From questionnaires sent out to his classmates, Author Tunis learned that most of Harvard 1911 read no books, boast no intellectual diversions, live generally mediocre lives. By a "personal, house-to-house canvass" Classmate Benchley collected a grim set of 1912 confessions: "I have three children, all of whom look...
"I took three years of German in college, and two years later they changed the name of sauerkraut to 'Liberty Cabbage' ! "I haven't read any books. . . . "No spik Engliss." Harvardman Tunis concluded that the Class of 1911 comprised a "bunch of contented cows" who had accomplished...
Her onetime enemy, Henri of Navarre, who became Henri IV of France in spite of all Catherine's maternal machinations, gave the old lady her due. Said he: "What could the poor woman do, with five little children on her arms, after the death of her husband, and two...