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...shame, a burning shame is this to the lofty toned America of 1917 and 1918. A lasting insult to the men of 1776 who fought our battles and won our freedom for us. The writer is not a swearing man; if he were he would lift aloft the Henry Watterson war-cry in the late Hohenzollern strife and paraphrasing it devoutly cry: 'To hell with the name Rainier from Mount Tacoma...
After the war, the elder Haldeman with Henry Watterson founded the Courier-Journal. The son served under them for a time. Then he went to the Kentucky Military Institute to take first his B.A., in 1869, then his M.A., in 1871. In 1884, the elder Haldeman established the Times, an evening paper coordinate with the Courier-Journal, and in 1902 William Birch became its editor. He held that post until 1918 when he sold his interest in the two papers...
...profession in two successive generations, when these men have been widely different in characteristics and genius, it is apparent that this right-hand-man must have distinct and powerful merits of his own. Such is the case of Arthur Krock, one-time able assistant of Colonel Henry Watterson (Louisville Courier-Journal), now the assistant of Herbert Bayard Swope (The New York World...
...strongest writer of the New York press since Horace Greeley," were the words of Henry Watterson in describing Frank I. Cobb, editor of The New York World...
...unanimous decision of the judges to Oviatt McConnell '23 of Buffalo, N. Y., who read for his piece Rudyard Kipling's dramatic poem, "Gunga Din". Eli Allen Smith '25 of Worcester received the first Boylston Prize of $35 for his selection, "Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln" by Henry Watterson, while the second prize of $25 went to Norman Edwin Hines '23 of Portland, Conn., who read John Bright's "Faith in the People". It is interesting to note that of the three prize orations, two were in prose and only one in verse...