Word: alston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. The Rt. Hon. Sir Beilby Francis Alston, 60, British Ambassador to Brazil, onetime Chargé d'Affaires at Peking; in London...
Died. Kate Macready Dickens Perugini, 89, last surviving daughter of Charles Dickens, known in her own right for her paintings of children; in London. She was married twice, first to Charles Alston Collins, brother of Novelist William Wilkie Collins; second to Painter Carlo Perugini of Italy. Aged 10, Kate Dickens taught her father a polka to dance with her at the birthday party of her brother Charles Dickens Jr. Author Dickens, many years after, specially insisted that the polka lessons ("my fondest memories") be included in his biography by John Forster...
...stronger than its weakest link. Perhaps the gentleman would strengthen the society and save his evident shame by removing that weakest link. Such a step would be conclusive to his content as well as to ours that I respectfully offer the suggestion of his mature and secret consideration. Alston H. Chase '27 Instructor and Tutor in Greek and Latin
...highest academic distinction in Harvard College, the A.B. or S.B. degree summa cum laude, was conferred on only six men. Prescott Niles Arnold, of Milton, Eugene Lewis Bleiweiss, of Cleveland Heights, O., Alston Hurd Chase, of Salem, Milton Irving Katz, of Brooklyn. N.Y., John Robert Richardson, of Dorchester, and Henry Franklin Williams, of Cambridge were the men who received this honor...
...Alston Hurd Chase of Salem; Eugene Eisenmann of New Orleans, La.; Sumner Wilson Elton of Dorchester; Milton Irving Kats of Brooklyn, N. Y.; George Thomas Major of Easthampton; Norman Warren Schur of Beashmont; Lewis Hyman Weinstein of Portland, Me.; Lenson Arnold Weissberger of New York City...