Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This pedestrian, one need scarcely add, is Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History. This is the Squire of Sparks St. the insatiable collector of this and that, the indefatigable narrator of faded stories, the herenow admirer of Oliver Cromwell. This is he who was called from Yale in 1920 to fill the eight-league boots of Mr. Harold Laski...
There is very little available material on Professor Abbott's early years. He was born, according to Who's Who, in Kokomo, Indiana on December 28, 1869. His undergraduate memories center around Wabash College, which graduated him at the age of twenty-three. From that date he studied and taught at Cornell, Michigan, Dartmouth, Oxford, and Kansas,--until he was found and hired by Yale in 1908. There, in 1917, he gained wide scholastic attention. He had, for some time, been intrigued with the notions of the sociological historians. He had, for some time, been laboring with 350 years...
When three years had rolled by, and Laski had departed, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, therefore, was the natural choice for the vacancy. As expected, he dropped snugly into the atmosphere of Brattle Street. His speculation was undramatic, his sufficient works dealt with the dead past, his lectures with innocuous anecdotes and data. He became, in the course of time, a stock-holder in the Harvard Cooperative Society, and an Associate of Lowell House; he acquired the grey hair and the mien of a Bank President. He fitted; he fits; he will...
...would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor Abbott on the culture of Anne's reign...
...Reign of Anne," Professor Abbott, Emerson...