Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded in 1810, Lawrenceville was reorganized in 1884 by the late James Cameron Mackenzie, who gave it one of the first U. S. "house plans." Lean years lay behind the school when Mather Almon Abbott took its headmastership in 1919. Halifax born and Oxford bred, "The Bott" had taught President Roosevelt at Groton, had been crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, was big, ruddy, firm-willed. At Lawrenceville he upped scholarship and enrollment, turned everybody out for sports, started rowing and polo, opened a Lower School for boys under 14, established scholarships for British boys. His biggest & best jobs...
...John Harvard Scholarships, which are made without stipend to students in the College of the highest scholastic standing who have not made application for other types of scholarships. The other 72 are Harvard College Scholarships, similarly assigned to students of slightly lower academic standing. The remaining award was the Abbott Lawrence Scholarships which is given to an undergraduate in the Engineering School...
...Abbott Lawrence Scholarship...
...years, as chief of the Children's Bureau, Miss Abbott's name has appeared on the inside page of a slim, yellow booklet let called Infant Care and sold by the Government for 10?. The Bible of young mothers, Infant Care, since it was first issued in 1914, has sold more than 8,000,000 copies, a record equaled only by In His Steps...
...betrayed him dying at his feet; then to drop dead himself. He gets both wishes. One or two of Small Miracle's side excursions are gratuitous and one or two are trite, but the tangled threads never slip out of the capable hands of Director George Abbott. The net effect is as pungent and authentic as the gunpowder smoke that clouds the stage...