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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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giate debating begun thatthe lost art was at all revived. It was a rarely brilliant class, this 78,and its short-lived activity in debate musthave been both instructive and diverting.It has been said of President Roosevelt,Harvard alumnus as he is, that he has hadto go to Yale to find the men he wantedto fill the most important judicial andadministrative positions. When Mr. Taftwas solicitor general under PresidentHarrison he observed a similar difficultyin keeping Yale men out of office, and 142 The Outing Magazine during a speechmade at an alumnidinner in 1893 neremarked as fol-lows concerningthis phenomenon:I had the pleas-ure of being inWashington fortwo years and ofbeing in a positionwhere I saw appli-cants for all judi-cial offices underthe late adminis-tration, and I ambound to say thatfor every judicialoffice — and therewere many of themto be distributed—there were twoor three candi-dates from Yale.And when theywere examined itwould be foundthat generally aYale man was se-
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William H. Taft—30 years ago. under PresidentMcKinley and ap-pointed solicitorgeneral by Presi-dent Roosevelt.Herbert W. Bowenwho began hisdiplomatic careeras consul-generalat Barcelona, laterbecame ministerto Persia, ministerto Venezuela andcounsel for Vene-zuela and theUnited States be-fore the HagueTribunal. JohnAddison Porterwas secretary toPresident McKin-ley. Edward B.Whitney was ap-pointed assistantattorney generalby PresidentCleveland. H. S.Van Buren servedas consul at Nice. lected. President Harrison knew a goodthing when he saw it. The AttorneyGeneral was in the habit of saying to me,when he did me the honor to consult meat all on the subject, Well, Taft, whois the Yale candidate this time? Whenthe papers were examined it would befound that the recommendations of theYale man began with a letter from Presi-dent Dwight and included letters from allhis classmates. Of the class of Yale, 78, a surprisinglylarge number of men seem to have pre-sented winning recommendations to th

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