Word: avon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bordered by the Farmington River. Built thereon, a rough-hewn stone village, copied after old Colonial villages, with heavy-timbered gables, hand-joined by wooden pegs; with split-oak roof-trees, slate-slabbed roofs and other backwoods atmosphere. In this village, a population of hardy schoolboys, citizen-students of Avon College (a school and junior college, preparatory to universities...
...Harvard St. History and Literature Mr. E. A. Whitney Grays 9b Grays 9b Indic Philology Prof. Lanman Widener A 9 Farrar St. Latin Prof. C. H. Moore University 19 Univ. 19 (2.30-4) Literature Prof. G. B. Weston Holyoke 25 Holyoke 25 Mathematics Prof. Osgood Sever 20 74 Avon Hill St. Mathematics and Education Prof. Osgood Sever 20 74 Avon Hill St. Medical Sciences Prof. Reid Hunt Harvard Med. Sch. Harvard Med. Sch. Mineralogy and Petrography Prof. Palache Geol. Mus. 12. Geol. Mus. 12 Modern Languages Prof. Kittredge Warren House 8 Hilliard St. Music Prof. Spalding Music Building Music Building...
Died. Marie Corelli, 60, at Stratford-on-Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...
...Whether she has or not this is a modern fairy story with the Beautiful Princess and the Handsome Prince and the Elderly Lover translated into up-to-date characters which should please all those who are fond of the novels of the second writer to come from Stratford-on-Avon...
Francis Cardinal Bourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster Cathedral, London (not the Abbey), spoke words at Stratford-on-Avon which have gone out to the uttermost parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations. He said: " We members of the Catholic Evidence Guild are out to reinstate the Pope. We want him to be the spiritual and ethical leader of the country and we are not hiding that fact...