Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bragdon 133 BECK HALL 1-30--R. S. Holden 2 31-47--Henry Statter Jr. 31 9 BOW STREET Entire--F. A. Clark 54 DUNSTER STREET Entire--G. A. Fitts 6 HOLYOKE PLACE Entire--S. F. Dana 60 MT. AUBURN STREET Entire--C. M. Abbott 66 MT. AUBURN STREET Entire--N. B. Parker 5 LINDEN STREET 1st, 2nd Floor--A. W. Richardson 3rd, 4th Floor--George Crawford 59 PLYMPTON STREET Entire--J. H. Browne GORE A Entry--E. H. Hubbard 45 B Entry--A. W. Brown 25 C Entry--L. Perlenfein 21 D Entry--Adam Rhodes 11 E Entry-Guthree...
...Last September my board of directors decided to curtail my authority, to subordinate me to an Executive Council. I objected. Last week I resigned. I am a nephew of the late President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard and have been suggested as a possible successor there to President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. I am not being considered for that post...
...Next President of Harvard: A Prediction, said the title. The author was that suspicious creature, a pseudonymity; in this case, "Dolopathos," meaning "Suffering Slave," or as more cheerful souls who had forgotten their Greek translated, "Bad News." The publishers were S. Baldwin & Co. of Cambridge, a non-luminous fact. "Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard," read the first sentence, "will be 70 years old on December 13 of this year." What axiom could be more harmless? "He has occupied his high office for 17 years, has accomplished many striking and notable changes in the life of the University, has donated...
FLATLAND - A Square - Little, Brown ($1.50). Some 40 years ago, critics hurled brickbats and bouquets, hurled them hard, at this small book, whose pseudonymous author was then headmaster of the City of London School, the Rev. Edwin Abbott Abbott, M.A., D.D. Now the book is republished with a foreword by erudite William Garnett, in view of the detection of a fourth dimension by Dr. Einstein. It is a geometric romance for non-mathematicians; an extremely simple fable with amazing implications and a vein of social satire that remains ageless...
Pleasantly ensconced within the gentle blue confines of the October number of the Yale Review is an article by Professor Abbott of Harvard on the democracies and dictators. There he shows that it is possible for America to give up Congress and Coolidge for the muzzzling but methodical rule of some domestic dictator. Nor does one dare to disagree with Mr. Abbott on this point. There will come a time when politicians will be purloined of their progress and heads will fall before the aggressive decisions of a representative to that permanent future of governmental change the chopping block...