Word: washburn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This volume--widely advertised both outside and inside the covers as Coolidge's first biography--aspires to give a picture of the President as the "personal friend that he is" and to drive at "quality not quantity". Mr. Washburn, the biographer, has succeeded in one thing. He has written the first biography of Calvin Coolidge. I can't think of anything else in the book to call successful...
Throughout the history of American politics one hears of great men being ruined by their friends. This is how it is done. Mr. Washburn has written a campaign book and has written it badly. President Coolidge is a silent and reserved gentleman. His life has in it little of the dramatic, his character makes no popular appeal. But he has inspired the country with confidence in his abilities. Mr. Washburn attempts to supply from his own genius what qualities may be lacking in his subject. His loud garrulity makes one realize why Coolidge prefers to keep silent; he supplements...
...lest it be thought that I am underestimating Mr. Washburn's work let me quote at random. "This is another story of the Log Cabin to the White House." "Cal first went to school in the little red schoolhouse." "He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese." "He is as much himself at work in smock-frock and boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli...
...gathering made up largely of undergraduates and professors attended the dedication of the Roosevelt Memorial Tablet last Saturday at noon. The tablet was presented by Charles G. Washburn '80 of Worcester, for the Massachusetts Committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association. The house upon which the tablet is placed is at 38 Winthrop Street, between the Yard and the Freshman Dormitories. The tablet, written by President Eliot reads: "Here Theodore Roosevelt lived during four formative and fruitfull years as a member of Harvard College...
...Washburn, in his dedication speech, said in part...