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Died. William Allan Pinkerton, 77, "The Eye," whose estate was estimated at between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000, in Los Angeles. His father, Allan Pinkerton, who founded Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in 1852, "saved the life" of President Lincoln in Baltimore on his way to Washington to be inaugurated, by taking him off the Presidential "special" and sending him through Baltimore on a preceding regular train. During the Civil War, the elder Pinkerton put William, then 15 years old, in the U. S. Secret Service, later sent him to Notre Dame. In 1884, on the death...
...forgotten portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Rembrandt Peale, American painter of Revolutionary days, was discovered by Americans in the collection of Lord Lee of Fareham, former First Lord of the British Admiralty, who gave his estate, Chequers Court, to England, as a residence for its Premiers. The picture was painted in Philadelphia in 1833 and is now on exhibition at the Scott & Fowles Galleries, New York...
...Allan Armstrong Hunter, California student at Union Theological ,Seminary, has found a voice. A contributor to magazines, he makes (in The Forum) this point: the young priest or preacher is not interested in debates about theological dogma (virgin birth, etc.); the young priest is interested in questions which he scarcely dares face, and those are the questions of " social justice." Are the rich too rich; the poor too poor? Since the church does so little to educate young men and women to marry intelligently, has it a right to forbid divorce? Birth control? Perhaps H. G. Wells is right...
...assistant secretary of War. Dr. Morton Prince '75, of Boston, Henry S. Dennison '99, of Framingham, James J. Storrow '85, of Boston, George F. Baker Jr. '17, of New York, presidents K. C. M. Sills of Bowdoin, W. W. Comfort of Haverford, Lemuel H. Murlin of Boston University, William Allan Neilson of Smith, Nathan Matthews '75, former mayer of Boston, Rollo Ogden, editor of the New York Times, Frank H. Simonds '00, of Washington, Judge James M. Morton Jr. '91, of Fall River, A. Hamilton Rice '98, of Newport, R. L., Theodore Roosevelt '09, of New York and Frederick...
...Quincy and Kirkland Streets. At ten-thirty the academic procession will form there and proceed to Sanders Theatre where the exercises will be held at eleven. Those who take part in the program are: President Marion Edwards Park, of Bryn Mawr, a former dean of Radcliffe, President William Allan Neilson, of Smith College, which gave Miss Comstock to Radcliffe, President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard, and Miss Comstock...