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...chronic organizer, he had propounded an efficient, unified student government, and drafted a constitution. The small campus boiled with political fervor, causing President David Starr Jordan to remark: "I wonder if I'm not presiding over a young Tammany Hall." The two parties were an "aristocratic" fraternity element v. a "barbarian" element led by the constitution-writer's friends. Hoover was reluctant to run for an office himself, but they insisted he was their strongest candidate for the important post of treasurer. Finally he said, "Well, perhaps I can swing it." Swing...
...Jack Starr-Hunt (correspondent...
...frontiersmen, bullwhackers, soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling with undertones of violence and defiance. Cattle Kate, Belle Starr, Lola Montez, Pearl Hart, Mme. Moustache, Poker Alice, Kitty the Schemer, and other lady wildcats of this astounding period in American history are highly spiced side dishes to the Calamity Jane main course. Author Aikman has garnished facts with picturesque phraseology, has neatly dedicated his volume "with some hesitation...
...another, much to the regal irritation of Kind Ferdinand; costumed in his nightie. The queen is a teaser; one never knows whether her love was lewd or purely playful. The King sends Columbus off to discover America just too soon. These ponderous problems are interpreted, well enough, by Frances Starr and Reginald Mason. There is a joke about the Nights of Columbus. The Mulberry Bush. Dramatist Edward Knoblock discusses divorce with some sagacity, some wit, and rare indelicacy. Gathered into one rowdy evening are a mutually cheerful man and the wife from whom he plans severance, his mistress...
...tendency to select its college presidents for various educational virtues-but not for scholarship. This correspondent gently pointed to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first president of University of Chicago; to David Starr Jordan, onetime (1891-1913) president of Stanford University; to Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbia University; to several others as scholar presidents. This correspondent was President of Yale University, James Rowland Angell...