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Theodore F. Bullen, of Melrose, Mass.; Louis Hartz, of Omaha, Nebr.; William C. W. Haynes, of Charlotte, N. C.; George V. Kaplan, of Roxbury, Mass.; Norman J. Richards, of Lexington, Mass.; James O. Seamans, of Salem, Mass.; and Albert L. Waldron Jr., of Cleveland...
...will avoid the evil of attempting to teach her future social leaders what to think, instead of how to think. Throughout her history, Harvard has kept a unique record in encouraging independent thought. For an illustration of this, as early as 1692, look at the records of the Salem witchcraft frenzy. This was an event in which many prominent Harvard men were involved, but, characteristically, with entirely different points of view. William Stoughton, the chief prosecutor of the witch trials; Nathaniel Saltonstall, the judge who left the bench "rather than stain his hands with innocent blood"; John Hale, the most...
...Governor Edw. Everett, and then toast after toast until all our heads were swimming merrily in the good refreshment of the college. Fine words and much sense from Mr. Webster who expounded the glories of our Constitution. Now more toasts to cities and states, until Mr. Saltonstall, Mayor of Salem and descendant of "that most excellent knight," spoke for his town. Now many songs, the whole assembly joining in the singing of them...
Meanwhile, in Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne, a grave, introspective, mysterious, sea captain's son, was growing up in a town that had passed its prime and was already peopled with eccentric oldsters, leftovers of Puritan days. He was also growing up in an eccentric household: his mother went to her room when she heard of her husband's death, and stayed there for 40 years; his sister left the house only at nightfall; the family meals were left outside the door of each member's room. There Hawthorne was writing stories that grew "as mushrooms grow...
...Merchant Marine is a classic U. S. industrial example of the smalltown boy who did not make good in the big city. A century ago the famed clippers sailed out of Salem, Newburyport, Baltimore to capture the oceans of the world for two decades, carry 90%, of U. S. trade. By 1914 the U. S. Merchant Marine was carrying less than 10% of U. S. trade. Since the War it has been kept afloat only by constant Government help. Last week, when President Roosevelt signed the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, experts thought that Congress had finally offered enough help...