George Harvey

7 pages in this part of The Mirrors of Washington.

THERE is something inscrutably ludicrous in the anxiety, bordering upon consternation, that lurks in the elongated and grotesque shadow…

About this time, quite accidentally, he was present at Woodrow Wilson's inauguration as president of Princeton University. The professor…

But the gap between the presidency of Princeton and the Presidency of the United States was too wide to be taken at one leap. Harvey…

Mr. Harvey retired from the campaign. Harper's Weekly had been wrecked, whether or not by the espousal of the Wilson cause, and he sold it…

This episode is necessary to an understanding of what happened later. His transfer from the Democratic to the Republican party was a…

Here another Harvey characteristic came into play. He did not assume the lofty role of mentor or prophet; he very tactfully and gently…

The next shift in scenes was as much beyond Mr. Harvey's power of manipulation as it was beyond most of the Republicans who now sagaciously…