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...Walter Lippmann, writing about the coming Tercentenary in the New York Herald-Tribune, lands Harvard for its freedom from political entanglements and takes the opportunity of warning against the current influence of university professors in the affairs of government...
...oldest and best-accepted families of the West Coast and was putting respectable and indignant old crooks in jail with whose families the Reeds had wined and dined for several generations. Later he was to feel disgusted with the vague socialism of his close friend Walter Lippmann, and to turn resolutely away from his companion Robert E. Rogers, who had implanted himself solidly on the side of the order that is, and now writes a column for the Boston Evening American. He was to go beyond the teachings of his liberal mentor Lincoln Steffens and to stop writing...
Thomas Stearns Eliot is a St. Louis boy who went to Harvard, and beyond. Not a particularly shining light in an undergraduate world that included such firebrands and footlights as the late John Reed and Walter Lippmann, he polished his post-graduate lamp to such purpose that he became Poet Laureate of the Lost Generation. His famed Waste Land has stood like a lighthouse against which whole flocks of sophisticated blues-writers have dashed themselves in vain emulation. When Poet Eliot expatriated himself to England, there were few disapproving murmurs from his followers. But when he publicly renounced agnosticism, announced...
Classmates Walter Lippmann, Lee Simonson, T. S. Eliot had sounder reputations, but Reed got the prominence he wanted. With Hamilton Fish Jr. leading the football team, Reed pranced before the stands, "the most inspired song-leader Harvard had known...
...first page of the Herald Tribune's second section last week, and flanking Pundit Walter Lippmann's animadversions, "On The Record" began with no self-conscious fanfare but proved to be reading matter as solid as its famed neighbor. "I, like 120,000,000 other Americans," began Columnist Thompson, "will probably never grasp the truth about the money system." Thereupon, with no further matronly misgivings, Miss Thompson proceeded to discuss the profundities of the Corporation Tax Bill for some 1,500 words...