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...story of the man who had to pay more to have his family history hushed up than he did to have it discovered is paralleled in the current Harper's by a Technology professor, Harold U. Faulkner. What the D. A. R. and the Colonial Dames will think of him is yet undisclosed. Mr. Faulkner states unblushingly that the majority of immigrants to America "belonged to the class at home who were economically beaten or who were persecuted for religious or political beliefs." New England was not full of psalm singing and blue laws but was a very decent place...
Popular conceptions are so seldom right that the probabilities are all in Mr. Faulkner's favor. Yet people will probably cling to their picturesque illusions all the more because they have small foundation. Where could one find a horrible example of religious bigotry to cartoon if New England refuses the role? what becomes of the ancestry societies if one's ancestor was a bond servant on a rundown tobacco farm? The public will see to it that these iconoclastic assertions are still-born; it would never do to see the United States join hands with Australia as a place whose...
...head of the University was induced to use his authority, reprived Harvard of Mr. Bancroft's services as coach. In 1885, apparently without taking to heart the object lesson given by Yale in 1882-83, in experimenting with a professional stroke and coach, Harvard enlisted the services of Faulkner, a professional oarsman. The victory of 1885 was the dearest Harvard ever won; five defeats by Yale during that number of years following is proof enough of this...
Keene-R. M. Faulkner '09, 150 Court Street Keene...
...however, can deny the value of the book, and its serial predecessors in "The Baseball Nine Books," as a series of trenchant treatises on scholastic morality. The scrivener to whom the beginnings of the series are ascribed is Christy Mathewson. His titles read: Pitcher Pollock, Catcher Craig, First Base Faulkner, Second Base Sloan. The array leads one to anticipate Shortstop Sutphen, Left Fielder Lumley, Center Fielder Cathcart and Right Fielder Rabinowitz...