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While the Transcript is primarily respected for its impartiality, tradition has played a leading part in its appeal. Fond Bostonians like to recall its stand behind the old Whig party, its Civil War crusade against slavery, its one-family hereditary editorship through Victorian times, and its ultra-conservative woman editor. Nor will Beacon Hill ever live down the day a Brahmin butler announced to madame "three reporters, and a gentleman from the Transcript...
Twenty-five dollars each went to Paul L. Franken '40 of Winthrop House, for a discussion of "The New England Whig"; Harrie Lewis '40 of Lowell House, for "Destiny and Dishonor: An Essay on Helen Hunt Jackson and Indian Affairs"; and T. L. Wolford '41 of Adams House, author of "Pilgrimage to Utopia: E. L. Godkin...
...Theodore Roosevelt and others? Grant, after two terms (1869-1877), retired, then made a strong bid for the Republican nomination in 1880. Van Buren, defeated for re-election under the Democratic standard in 1840, led the new Free-soil party in 1848. Fillmore, rejected by his dissolving Whig party, became the Know-Nothing candidate...
Perhaps no modern writer has approximated the simplicity of Lord Macaulay, the Whig historian of England, in his famous analysis of those two contending forces which have governed and disputed alternately since the beginning of democratic processes...
Princeton officials used the same arguments advanced by Jerome D. Greene, '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and later affirmed by the President and Fellows, in its refusal to allow the Whig-Cliosophic Society to sponsor a talk by Browder...