Word: allens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current number of Harvard Library Notes does not overstep the bounds of scholarship's conservatism when it calls the William Allen White gift of Shakespearean Quartos "the capstone on Harvard's collection of English literature ... comparable with the greatest gifts the Library has received in the past." The eighty-eight thin volumes, which would hardly fill a single shelf of the ordinary stacks, have been examined by the college librarians since the announcement in June of the edition. Their findings give point to their assay of the gift. Of the forty-four separate editions of Shakespeare which were published before...
Then there was William Allen White and Vice. The Warrior enmeshed Mr. White but came out under the sign of the saloon...
...begun to grunt and exercise last week. While speculation as to which would be most imposing later in the season is properly confined to barrooms in college clubs and the writings of Grantland Rice, alert prognosticators fixed their attention upon the coaches. Of these, the most interesting is Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens who has replaced famed "Tad" Jones of Yale. Brown, lithe and shy. "Mai" Stevens played for Yale in 1923 on famed "Memphis Bill" Mallory's undefeated team; before that he had played for Washburn college, in Kansas. In his senior year at Yale he was ineligible ; later...
...William Allen White assumes to be big enough to tell the whole truth, but being a Republican editor, it is hardly to be expected, especially if smothering some of it will mislead readers and perhaps redound to the benefit of his party...
Died. Mrs. Ella Traver Allen, mother-in-law of Mayor James Walker of New York; at Clinton, Iowa, before his train reached there; of pernicious anemia...