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...Mac's visible accomplishments were a book of poems, a code long used by the State Department, a mystery story, and a diary-supposed to contain one of the most detailed histories of Woodrow Wilson's controversial administration-which he burned "because it was too risky to leave lying around." But his greatest accomplishments were invisible and unrecorded: in the years before his final retirement in 1936, Mr. Mac befriended and spurred many a young Princetonian...
Presbyterian missionary, "Mr. Mac" came to the U.S. at ten, eight years later en tered Princeton's class of 1896. He was teaching English at Lake Forest College when Wilson invited him to Princeton...
...President Wilson's new system of intimate teaching and hated formal lec tures. ("To do the same thing twice a week was horrible.") He timed his evening "precepts" so that his students could take in the first show at the movies. Many a lad who foregathered in Mr. Mac's smoke-filled apartment with six or seven fellow advisees stayed on till midnight, listening to the talk about poets and poetry - some times, at the meetings of Mr. Mac's Freneau Club, hearing from the poets them selves: Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell...
Next spring, when the $4 million Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library begins to rise on Princeton's campus, it wall contain a special poetry room dedicated to Francis Charles MacDonald. The anonymous donor of $20,000 prefers to be known only as "a grateful advisee of Mr. Mac...
Smack on the Chops. The Russians had proposed an Allied control council-with emphasis on control. The invitations announced last week were in effect a smack right on the Kremlin's chops. The Far Eastern Advisory Commission will not even advise, much less control, Douglas Mac Arthur. Its U.S. liaisons will be with the White House, the State Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Soon British, Chinese and Russian troops-possibly a division of each-will land in Japan to share the burdens, the discomforts, and the geisha girls. But MacArthur's directives will continue to come from...