Word: alcott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absently through her pages. Emerson, whose soul she compares to a glass of water; Washington Irving, "a man with large, beautiful eyes" James Russell Lowell, "brilli- ant, witty, gay"; Henry Clay uttering his battle-cry "California", "the last syllable of which he pronounced in a peculiar way"; Amos B. Alcott, advised to drink milk to make his transcendentalism less foggy; farmers, slave holders, Abolitionists, preachers, pale brides, dark chivalrous gentlemen, all brought strangely back in the letters of this little old maid, out of a dead world, out of a lost time...
...University. Each college is allowed to send to camp only five percent of its men, and the University delegation will be limited to 30 students. Major R. E. D. Hoyle of Yale will be in charge of the camp while Major Parker will be camp executive. Captain Alcott and Captain B. H. Perry will be the other officers from the University Unit who will be instructors at the camp. The latter has recently been assigned by the War Department to the Department of Military Science and will take up his work in Cambridge next fall...
Gambert, A, 12 Alcott St., Allston...
Gambert, A, 12 Alcott St., Allston...
...Captain Alcott was born in Virginia in 1884. His first military service was with the Louisiana National Guard on the Mexican Border in 1916. At the outbreak of the war he entered the first Officers Training Camp, from which he was commissioned in 1917. He was assigned to the 335th Field Artillery and went over seas. In January 1919 he was transferred to the 20th Field Artillery, with which he served as adjutant. Since his return from abroad, he has been specializing in motors, first at the Army Motor School at Camp Holalaird and later at the factories...