Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BEATRICE ABBOTT...
...meeting held in the Dunster House Common Room 16 Seniors were chosen to the Phi Beta ranks by the Senior Eight and by a group of five graduate members. The graduates participating in the election were Dean Hanford '17, Crane Brinton '19, Charles B. Abbott '14, Samuel H. Cross '12, and Seth T. Gano...
...general vote of the faculty the following men were also elected to the council: C. C. Abbott, Economics; Philippe Baldensperger, Comparative Literature; James P. Baxter, History; N. H. Black, Physics; Arlio V. Book, Hygiene; Kirk Bryan, Geology; E. S. Castle, Biology; E. H. Chamberlin, Economics; William Y. Elliott, Government; Allan Evans, History; W. C. Greene, Classics; Mason Hammond, Classics; Albert E. Hindmarsh, Government; Michael Karpovich, History; W. R. W. Kechler, Fine Arts; A. B. Lamb, Chemistry; William L. Langer, History; C. I. Lewis, Philosophy; L. S. Marks, Engineering Sciences; F. O. Matthiessen, History and Literature; L. J. A. Mercier, French...
...joys. Last week a quaint book written in the mood of a less self-conscious age gave a lively account of a happy girlhood in one of the most repressed and inhibited environments in the U. S-the household of a Cambridge clergyman in the 1870's. Eleanor Abbott's grandfather was the prolific author of the Rollo books. Her father was first a Congregationalist and later an Episcopal minister. "Before I knew him he had been a Congregationalist," writes his daughter. In the Abbott household conversations turned largely on pious and literary matters, with the three children...
...entirely given over to such pleasantries, Being Little in Cambridge When Everyone Else Was Big also touches on the death of the Abbott children's mother, their father's second marriage and their struggles with their stepmother. Occasionally, like Clarence Day's Life With Father, it suggests that domestic repression and tyrannies created harrowing situations scarcely compatible with the light, affectionate tone in which they are described. When a boy walked home from school with Eleanor it was classified as an "attention" and one of the things her father would rather see her in her grave than...