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...reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey at bay between Jesse James and Brigham Young. Among the seven names represented between the strenuous cloth covers are one woman (Frances E. Willard); one capitalist (J. J. Hill); one sailor (Dewey); one politician (Mark Hanna); one showman (Barnum); one Latter-day Saint (Young); one bandit (James...
Frances E. Willard. Here is a woman who has been regarded as the embodiment of the aggressively virtuous. Her very humanity has been squeezed from her by her admirers. Mr. Dibble means to change all that. He tries to show the irrepressible naughtiness underlying the intolerable perfection. She is interesting for two reasons: her career marks "the definite entrance of woman into the field of political and moral reform"; and "she was a woman who led an unusually rich and varied existence...
...Upper Montclair, New Jersey; Woodbury Howard of Nashua, New Hampshire; Samuel Blackwell Jones of Elizabeth, New Jersey; George Douglas Krumbhaar of Cazenovia, New York; Joseph Carlton McGlone of Natick; Alfred Dayton Phillips Jr. of Springfield; Lawrence Orlen Pratt of West Newton; Robert Winslow Puffer, Jr. of Wellesley Hills; Willard Lewis Tibbetts Jr. of South Boston, and Frederick Portas Weymer of Syracuse, New York...
...Dinner will be held in May. The Committee in charge of the Dinner in addition to R. G. Allen, Chairman, and C. McG. Wells and J. J. Maher, Vice-Chairmen, is as folows: John Wright Adie of Chestnut Hill; Henry Goddard Bradlee of Brookline; Samuel Willard Bridges Jr. of Newton; Thayer Cumings of Bedford Hills, New York; George Wallace Foster of West Roxbury; Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham; Columbus O'Donnell Iselin of New York City; George Beere Moynahan of Mattapan; Perry Rogers Pease of Hempstead, Long Island, New York; Harold Irving Pratt of New York City; Kenneth Morse...
...Wells and J. J. Maher, Vice-Chairmen, is as folows: John Wright Adie of Chestnut Hill; Henry Goddard Bradlee of Brookline; Samuel Willard Bridges Jr. of Newton; Thayer Cumings of Bedford Hills, New York; George Wallace Foster of West Roxbury; Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham; Columbus O'Donnell Iselin of New York City; George Beere Moynahan of Mattapan; Perry Rogers Pease of Hempstead, Long Island, New York; Harold Irving Pratt of New York City; Kenneth Morse Rogers of Dorchester; Hovey Edward Slayton of Manchester, New Hampshire; Donald Spencer of Cambridge; Donald LeBosquet Sweeney of Newton Highlands; Albert Tilt...