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Secretary Harte reached retirement age in 1925 but stayed on the job until 1930, saw his building completed. As his succes sor the Y. M. C. A. chose "the luckiest man in the War." Lieut. Waldo Huntley Heinrichs. A onetime Y. M. C. A. man in Honolulu and in India, Lieut. Heinrichs went from theological seminary into avia tion. He saw Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt shot down in France, had three escapes from death in mid-air himself. In the Battle of St. Mihiel he fell 3,000 ft., got off with ten wounds. He won a Croix de Guerre with...
...luncheon at Fresh Pond, and went back again to the woods. After much wandering and seeing many things, four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see-not to eat not for love, but only gliding. . . ." Thus patly comes a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journal to supply a title for a novel about Harvard. Good novels of U. S. college life have been rare since Francis Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. More comprehensive, less pointed than its Princeton predecessor Not to Eat Not for Love would...
...Thompson. Author Sayre's pleasing idea is to imagine a city that did. Mayor of Greater Malta, a municipality strongly resembling Greater New York, is John Norris ("Jolly John") Holtsapple, who is first seen rising from his bed of alcoholic pain to go down the Bay and welcome Waldo, champion wrestling bear. Jolly John's party has the city in its bag but only a slim margin of control on the Board of Aldermen, whose president, Harrie Satchells, is after the mayoralty. The campaign is a humdinger, nip & tuck all the way. When Satchells at one meeting produces...
...Declaration of Independence went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late great Charles William Eliot. Other Boston Latin pupils: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Graham Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Orator Edward Everett...
Dark horse was John Waldo Green, a square-faced, square-shouldered young Harvard-man (class of 1928) who earlier in the evening had come on stage grinning and bowing, sat down at one of the three pianos which had 'been pushed in front of the orchestra, and proceeded to solo in a suite called Night Club. Johnny Green's music was as blatantly programatic as Grofé's. It described tables being set in a speakeasy still reeking with smoke from the night before. Revelers drifted in. Two lovers sat in a corner oblivious to the noise...