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The mystery surrounding gruff, impetuous, well-loved Dr. Mather Almon Abbott's resignation as headmaster of Lawrenceville School (TIME, Feb. 21), remained a mystery. And Dr. Abbott, withdrawing his resignation, remained headmaster. Whatever it was that had prompted the resignation?an offer from another school? a quarrel with the trustees...
"From his youth", says Mr. H. A. Dobson, "the moralist had moralized; from his youth--nay from his childhood--this letter-writer had written letters, from his youth this supreme delineator of the other sex had been the confidant and counsellor of women. In his boyhood he was secretary-general...
An openhearted young New Englander, steeped in Vergil, enters their midst, to find that their innocent schemes range from curing the sick oaks of the Borghese Gardens and ridding the Sistine of a faint smell of drains, to catholicizing France and re-establishing the Bourbon monarchy. Moved, amused, half suspecting...
If the White House confidant should be repudiated, from whatever true cause, by the President's home state, the possibilities are infinite. To the country at large, it will appear as a rebuke to the President himself. Would the halo of staunch Puritan piety and common sense fall away from...
This Congressman Richard S. Aldrich hardly titillates the memory of the average man today. Yet he might well have gone to his brother-in-law and asked for $5,000 as a pension for Mrs. Marshall, his brother-in-law is John D. Rockefeller Jr. But his sister's husband...