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...family finances, he got a job as office boy with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Strange office boy, he wanted to investigate art and for this purpose pinched his living; learned shorthand; did odd jobs; and finally went to Paris on his savings. Back from Paris with a thorough artistic background, he started writing; won a contest on the old Baltimore News at an age when most bright young men are beginning to succeed, took the resulting job offered him and in five years was managing editor, at an age when many young men are beginning to admit failure. His later...
Back of this gentle fable is fashioned a magnificent background of race humor, pathos, song and hot-blooded simplicity. Dice click, spirituals sigh and scream, superstition stalks and little children chatter. For this background the piece is chiefly notable. The play itself is not a masterpiece. The acting is brilliantly accounted for by a troupe seized from the dusky depths of the vagrant Negro theatre...
Tomorrow will be Friday morning at Dartmouth, Friday before the Harvard game. The early morning fog rolls off the campus and the sun warms the crisp, clear air. Dartmouth in all her autumn beauty reveals herself. The age old hills in the background sparkle in the early morning sunshine. The trees with leaves in every color of the rainbow give her a festive dress. the whitewashed front of "Dartmouth Row" stands as a symbol of the old Dartmouth. The new library, the new Biology building and the new dormitory, half-finished, bear tangible evidence of the growth...
Such a man Harvard mourns, proud to have been the background of at least a part of his career. For Dr. Peabody's work was well done; and his influence, great and widespread, will keep his name alive for many years...
...Public Responsibility for Education: How far shall the State go? Historical Background". Professor Holmes, Lawrence...