Thayer moved to San Francisco and joined the Examiner’s editorial staff in 1886, contributing an occasional comic column under the nom de plume, "Phin". As it happened, the business manager of the Harvard Lampoon had been newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, who had only just purchased the San Francisco Examiner. Upon his return, he set about finding a job. Thayer was in good company - one of his fellow editors was Spanish-born poet and philosopher, George Santayana, who compared Thayer to Mercutio, the wry commentator of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.Īs was not an uncommon practice for newly graduated men at the time, he did not enter commercial life right away but took a tour of Europe for several months. While at Harvard, Ernest Lawrence Thayer studied with William James and also worked diligently as one of the editors of the Harvard Lampoon (1883 - 1885), becoming president of the magazine in his senior year. (age 77) Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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