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Eleven Harvard undergraduates were named as ushers: P. W. Whitman '32, E. L. Belisle '31, B. H. Ticknor '31, J. N. Trainer '31, C. D. Dillon '31, J. B. Garrison '31, Harwood Ellis '31, E. H. McGrath '31, V. M. Barding '31, J. B. Campbell '31, and Vernon Munroe...
...them. William Dean Howells was his close friend. James A. Herne, actor-author of onetime famed play, Shore Acres, was another. Garland was one of the discoverers of Stephen Crane; he admired Crane's genius, deprecated his habits, gave him many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld...
...best qualifies for the position of U. S. Poet? New England's Ralph Waldo Emerson and Long Island's Walt Whitman are doubtless the foremost candidates, with a few critics ranking California's Robinson Jeffers ahead of either. Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson are other candidates from New England. Carl Sandburg is the Midwest's best voice. Vachel Lindsay catches the whole jingle of American speech, and Stephen Vincent Benet caught last year's Pulitzer Prize. Last week at Columbia University a candidate for U. S. Poet was proposed...
...gives the tea parties to the authors while Partner Minton is out on the road selling their books. The line-up of the new firm: Irving Putnam, president; Minton, vice president; Palmer Cosslet Putnam, treasurer; Balch, secretary. Another vice president will be Irving Putnam's son, Edmund Whitman Putnam...
...pure white blood, of the Aryan race, the Hindu traces his culture back 25 centuries (See Woodbridge Riley's Story of Ethics) settling in India where its hot sun darkened the skin, as it does that of our lifeguards today. And it was Emerson, Thoreau and Walt Whitman who first brought Hindu thought to the United States...