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...Whitman," Professor Matthiessen, Harvard...
...Northerner of corresponding position," but believes in his "unspoiled and eager teachableness." An eloquent testimonial of the kind of education which Piedmont gives is provided in Professor Phillips' account of weekends in his mountain cabin where students help him bake corn pone and listen to passages from Walt Whitman...
...noble thoughts, snatches of homely humor, tributes to beauty, diligence, nature, perseverance, motherhood, home, etc. Some are from Edgar Albert Guest, Dr. Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?" 'R' You Listenin'? is a book of extracts from "Tony's Own Philosophy," sermonets which he sometimes...
...Daniels, R. T. Fisher, L. A. Frothingham, Harry Gans, H. M. Goodwin, Pinckney Holbrook, D. G. Haskins, E. W. Hutchins, Charles Jackson, W. S. H. Lothrop, Angela Morris, J. M. Newell, T. N. Perkins, J. W. Platner, Calhoun Stanwood, J. J. Thomas, G. W. Valiant, E. A. Whitman, Alexander Whiteside, Phillip Wrenn, and F. H. Williams...
...Whitman flayed parents who tell children that the "doctor won't hurt." Said he: "Tell children the truth. The screaming terrified ones who are so hard to handle are those who have been assured that the doctor would not hurt them, and then have had their fracture reduced without an anesthetic...