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...WALT WHITMAN - Henry Seidel Canby-Houghfon Mifflm...
...Their reasons: "If the professionally-minded engineer is not prepared to bargain collectively through representatives of his own choosing, collective bargaining will be done for him by representatives selected by an organization with which he may not wish to be identified." A.S.C.E.'s tall, courtly President Ezra Bailey Whitman (Whitman, Requardt & Smith) insisted on leaving out the word "union," substituting the words "bargaining group." But in effect, the engineers were setting up their own counterunion...
...Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, the Phelps heyday at Yale was passing. By then Billy Phelps's literary notions were not even modern in the eyes of the sophisticated '20s. They could not agree with him that the swing of Eddie Guest's verse was "perfect," Walt Whitman "nothing but a Sears-Roebuck catalogue with calliope accompaniment."* Some of them were interested in James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis. Phelps...
...good as his neighbor, if not better"; will support "the ideas of Jefferson as against the more aristocratic and monarchical conceptions drawn from Europe"; and will have for his prophets not Marx, Engels and Lenin (to whom he will be respectful) but Thoreau and Emerson; and for his poet, Whitman...
...similar question, identifying various famous figures including John Burroughs, Nicholas Biddle, and Alexander H. Stephens, brought out the collegiate sense of humor in all its glory. One of the best lines, which hundreds thought of, was calling Walt Whitman a popular band leader...