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...Hall of Fame is heavily weighted in favor of men of letters. Of the 13 statesmen already installed, eight are U. S. Presidents : Washington, the two Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln. The other five are equally familiar: Franklin, Hamilton, Henry, Webster, Clay. It was not until 1930, after running five times, that James Monroe slipped in. But there are 16 authors, five preachers and theologians, five educators. There are seven women, of whom Harriet Beecher Stowe is the only household name. Only businessman is George Peabody, who entered under the colors of a philanthropist. The Electors include few businessmen...
Jack J. F. McConnechie, 2ndDriscoll C. J. Byrne, Jr.Cocky W. W. Webster, Jr.Stage Manager, P. E. MorganA HANDFUL OF SHEEPMiss Pugh Peggy Holman, R '88Captain Hughes R. M. EcklesMrs. Morris Agnds Love, R '84Aholibah Jones Katherine Young R '37Moses Roberts W. H. FelmethBugh Parry the Post D. W. NusebaumJohn Roberts the Fish R. P. Baker. Jr.Stage Manager, A. W. Clowe
Worcester, Mass.: Walter W. Webster Jr., '39, Worcester, Mass...
Stewart Harrison Webster, of Los Angles, Calif., appointed Assistant in Physiology. A.B. Pomona '23; A.M. Harvard '24; Ph.D. Harvard '31. He taught at Cornell...
Edgar Lee Masters wrote Spoon River under the pseudonym of Webster Ford because he deeply distrusted the value of this work. A Chicago lawyer of 45, he was fighting a case in the Supreme Court of Illinois and an injunction against the Waitresses' Union while his poems were meeting their first extraordinary response. Born in Garnett, Kans., in 1869, he had spent most of his life in Illinois, where he learned the printing trade, worked on newspapers, studied law and wrote thin volumes of conventional verse. Like so many of his generation he looked upon poetry less...