Word: athenaeum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studies and achieved the highest of scholastic honors, election to Phi Beta Kappa. Immediately upon his graduation in 1881 he went into the University Library. In 1887 he was appointed assistant librarian, a position which he held for six years. In 1893 he was made librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, where he remained until he was recalled to the University as head librarian...
...comedy is good; the rest is mediocre. The music is fair, the sets likewise, and the rest of the cast passable. The chorus, while executing a few good dances, is such as would most probably offend even the taste in pulchritude of the fastidious patrons of the Howard Athenaeum...
...Mary, no lamb, there might not have even been a May-flower, a Plymouth Rock, a Jonah, a, may one suggest it, a purple window. Tradition wavered before the onslaught of science. And then came sanity. For this morning the slowest wits of Boston had realized the truth. The Athenaeum had merely played a joke with its story about the non-existence of Mary. A great, great, great etc, grandson of the lamb had told the truth. He had a picture of his ancestors. And there was Mary right beside him. The sun shines once more on the State House...
...Woolf is the youngest daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen. She married Leonard Sidney Woolf, literary Editor of the Nation and Athenaeum, in 1912. They live at Hogarth House, an old place in Richmond, spending their quiet time alike at gardening and fine writing and printing...
...Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs: "When he first appeared upon the stage, as plain Mr. Hicks ?the Joynson is an accretion from his marriage?he seems to have had painful tendencies of a Radical order and sat in the Highbury Parliament which met at the Highbury Athenaeum in North London as Radical member for Peterborough. . . . He came first into prominence as a crusading Evangelical...