Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same news that came to Princeton last year came last week to Harvard. Its president resigned. Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell has been on the job since 1909. He will be 76 on Dec. 13. Aware that the Fellows of Harvard College had quietly done the same a fortnight ago, the Board of Overseers accepted his resignation, effective when a successor is chosen and ready to take office. The question of a successor was, unlike the same question at Princeton, not without likely answers. Dr. Lowell has long been suspected of having a candidate in mind. In any discussions...
...many fields of endeavor to which Dr. Abbott Lawrence has for half a century dedicated his talents leave to commentators a generous variety of laurels and bays to bestow...
...resourceful and unyielding fighter, Abbott Lawrence Lowell is dominantly a gentlemen of intact and abiding convictions. Opposition to his administrative projects or personal beliefs has but served to strengthen his purpose. A house plan ridiculed became to him a house plan imperatively demanding realization and justification. Abuse of Harvard's war time German department and staff appealed to his redeeming New England liberalism as the deciding factor in their continuance and protection. To be net against the course of his administration has invariably been to be set against an irresistible force...
...Grace Abbott of Grand Island, Neb. is head of the Federal Children's Bureau...
...Petersburg. She held family prayers every morning, kept the Sabbath with awful rigidity and insisted on serving roast turkey and pumpkin pie on the banks of the Neva. But she would not be of the slightest interest to the U. S. public today if her son James Abbott McNeill Whistler had not grown to be a great artist, had not painted her portrait in 1872, the last portrait he ever got past the outraged admissions committee of the Royal Academy. One of the best known portraits in the world, it last week arrived in the U. S. for the first...