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...Jordan, Shortridge & Brisbane...
Enclosed clipping supplements your appreciation of Dr. David Starr Jordan in TIME of June...
...great and fearless man. Dr. Jordan did not hesitate to say ''Arthur Brisbane knows no more about Evolution than-*Sam Shortridge (U. S. Senator from California) does." And-"Unfortunately Darrow is as ignorant concerning Evolution as Bryan...
...speaking of David Starr Jordan's pacifism in 1917, TIME said (June 8), that "In New Haven, Yale students hooted and jeered him." I was present at the meeting he held there, and this statement is not so. It is true that there were rumors of disturbance before the meeting. On the afternoon of it the Student Council posted signs about the campus urging fair play. This was observed. The meeting began in Lampson Lyceum. Jordan entered with Professor William Lyon Phelps who courageously had promised to introduce him. As they mounted the platform, Mr. Phelps said (with pardonable...
Died. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott, 50, grandson of Jordan Lawrence Mott who founded J. L. Mott Iron Works and became Acting Mayor of New York City in 1879; at Steamboat Station, near Roseburg, Ore. Young "millionaire reporter" in 1910 for a succession of Manhattan newspapers, he found journalism "far too dull," ran off to China with an actress, Mrs. Frances Hewitt Bowne. spent the rest of his days boating and writing novels of outdoor life (Prairie, Sea and Snow...