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With Benchley on the senior Nominating Committee are J. Sinclair Armstrong, Lyman B. Burgank, Joseph Franklin, Elliott B. Knowlton, George F. Lowman and Robert T. Whitman...
Nathaniel G. Benchley heads the Committee of Seniors making the nominations, and the other members of the committee are J. Sinclair Armstrong, Lyman B. Burbank, Joseph Franklin, Elliott B. Knowlton, George F. Lowman, and Robert T. Whitman...
...Leverett House and former editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, Burbank is athletic secretary of Winthrop House, Franklin is chairman of the Dudley House Committee, Knowlton is chairman of the Lowell House Committee, Lowman is a member of the Kirkland House Committee and a letterman in basketball and tennis, and Whitman is former head manager of football...
...literature. It belongs with the best biographies by virtue of its accuracy, its almost unique tone that manages to combine veneration for a great man with shrewd understanding of a human being. But in addition to these qualities, Herndon's Lincoln is a document as essentially American as Whitman's poems, not only in its grasp of the tough frontier world in which Lincoln grew, but in its belief in U. S. democracy, its recognition of democracy's weaknesses, its sturdy faith in the common people...
Herndon himself was well-read, a student of Darwin and Feuerbach, an admirer of Whitman, a man of the world in his understanding of men. He could turn out gnarled sentences as strong as Whitman's: "The great, keen, shrewd, boring, patient, philosophic, critical and remorselessly searching world will find out all things, and bring them to light," he wrote. "I know Lincoln better than I know myself. He was so good and so odd a man, how in the hell could I help study...