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...Cold figures show how superior was the Blue to the Crimson in every department of the game except that which calls for men to outdo themselves when faced by apparent defeat."--Burton Whitman, Boston Herald...
...Walt Whitman...
...because they think they ought to do it in order to stand well with their subscribers. Such people, in my judgment, are not only unfair to the newspaper profession, but they are doing a decided injury to their fellowmen by perpetuating untruths among them. Being very fond of Walt Whitman, I am, of course, sufficiently familiar with his poetry to know that he was not an atheist, and I am also familiar with his history, and know that he was not ousted from the Treasury Department because of atheistic tendencies...
...following quotation from Whitman is characteristic and anyone familiar with his writings will, I think, like myself, resent the statement on Page 3 that he was an atheist...
WILLIAM E. CLARK. TIME called Mr. Whitman "Poet-Atheist" in contradistinction to the "true-Atheist" compared with him in the article referred to. Of course, the charge of atheism cannot be seriously leveled against him today, but the charge of godlessness ("defiance of the Deity," etc.) was leveled with others against Leaves of Grass. He was dismissed from his government post because he had written the book...