Possible Clues:

• Iconoclastic editor H.L.
• H.L. — (The Sage of Baltimore)
• "The American Language" writer
• Who once described puritanism as 'the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy'
• The Sage of Baltimore
• Author of the quote
• Chaps get it in the neck, perhaps, or vice versa from this ironic observer
• Graduates are astringent, with no Scottish following
• ''Monkey Trial'' reporter