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1916 Volume 41 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

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24 THE SCROLLwhere, when he happens to attend, he personally radiates that goodwill and ideal of democracy so characteristic of his writings.But clever as he is in depicting existence in the rural communitiesof the mid-West and expounding with a sort of combined Franklinesque-Emersoniansagacious optimism"' the epic of the Americancommon man, he primarily is a citizen and patriot concerned withpolitics, history and affairs of state past and present.Wii.LiAM ALLEN WHITE,Kansas, 'goHence when in Boston for the first time with any leeway forexploration it was inevitable that he should make a bee line forBunker Hill, the Washington elm in Cambridge, F'aneuil Hall, thetwo States Houses and similar historic places. Other members of theinstitute might go to concerts and attend social functions, but notso William - Allen White. For him the adoration of a mid-West.'American for the soil, shrines and edifices of a memorable national

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