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Died. Lyman Beecher Stowe, 82, grandson of Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), grandnephew of Abolitionist Preacher Henry Ward Beecher, author of the lively 1934 account of the crusades and peccadilloes of his forebears, Saints, Sinners and Beechers; of pneumonia; in Fairfield, Conn...
...mental harmony has clung to his reputation like a sugary burr. Successive generations of collegians, coming upon it in more modern times, have turned away, convinced that Arnold's comments on the world are about as relevant to the tough-minded 20th century as those, say, of Harriet Beecher Stowe...
Named were: Adams, Bradford Perry, Ronald Rieder, Nicholas Bunnin, Andreas Teuber, Harry Owen; Dudley, John Murphy, Russell Beecher, Richard Szum, John Polacheck, Theodore Pappadopoulos; Dunster, John Purvis, Joseph Russin, Robert Inman, Martin Quinn; Eliot, Michael Dennis, Louis Williams, William Nitze, Michael Bassett, Christian Ohiri, William Southmayd...
...hate. Then his problem was solved. "I wanted to bring a little offering to human liberty to the world." he recalls, "and I wanted to bring the problem of enslavement to the public eye. As soon as I read Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Christian thought of Harriet Beecher Stowe seduced my mind...
...fall. The zealous "Uncle Sam" Taylor (1837-71) was a total believer in "total depravity." "Robinson," he warned one 14-year-old, "you're on the direct road to hell. You're reading too many novels." Still, Taylor's boys, partly inspired by Faculty Wife Harriet Beecher (Uncle Tom's Cabin) Stowe, flocked to the Civil War, one of them becoming a major general...