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...unusual, consideration for Barnard's brainy booster is shown in Lindley's discussion of the Hull-Moley controversy. Apparently Moley tried to be tactful in London but Hull's suspicions and force of circumstances would not let him. Eventually Hull's anger and the need of keeping Southern political support forced Roosevelt to sacrifice his professor publicly. Recent signs that Moley is still in the President's private favor bear out this analysis...
...Danforth wrote down as "about 17," was the Freshman in whose rooms the party started. It is interesting to note that in spite of his early difficulties with authority and his drinking habits as a Freshman. Alling managed to graduate number three in the class of 1679. Thomas Barnard, another Freshman, was one behind him as number four in the same class, while the third Harvard man, Thomas Cheever, a Junior at the time of his arrest, held first place when he graduated...
...came in to his chamber, sometime in the forenoon and so continued there until 3 or 4 or ye clock in ye afternoon. During which time...they had cider fetch(ed) in by ...Ailing... as he judgeth in all about 3 qts. for which they paid 2d a quart." Barnard, the other Freshman, stopped in to see Alling and "found they had some rum, which they had been drinking of." Another pint was soon required and sent for "which was mixt with water and sugar. They drank it among them but he saw no excess." After this addition was gone...
...trolley directors went home. Sculptor Barnard returned to work. Ahead of him were eight more years of translating his plaster models into granite and marble. He is ready, if the city is not willing to accept his memorial, to tear down his own house for a site...
...critics with every sympathy for the idea back of the arch, for the industry of Sculptor Barnard and for the artistic value of many of the individual figures stayed mum. None dared remind a man who has worked 15 years on one job that a 100-foot arch is not sculpture but architecture. The vast panels of plaster he has designed are white excrescences oozing from masonry. Despite their individual merit and the noble symbolism they represent, not one of the 53 figures has any structural connection with the arch of which it is a part...