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...holder to join. When an acceptance arrived on N.A.A.C.P. stationery, the City Club hastily sent an emissary to beg Ne gro Piekens to let his invitation "drop for fear of doing harm." Officials in Hyannis, Mass., who last month flunked Harvard's crusty 79-year-old President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell in a driving test (TIME, Sept. 14), gave him a new examination, announced that he had passed it, been granted a new license...
BEING LITTLE IN CAMBRIDGE WHEN EVERYONE ELSE WAS BIG-Eleanor Hallowell Abbott-Appleton-Century...
...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...
Decorations for the Tercentenary Theatre were handled by the University architects, the firm of coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott...