Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., with a hand from his brother Elliott, gave the Eisenhower band wagon a family push. Said young Franklin: "The most serious concern of the people of the U.S. is to elect as President ... a man who will not only have a united party behind him, but also will be capable of securing the unity of our country. . . . The American people have a right to call the General back into active public service...
Died. Maude Howe Elliott, 93, last survivor of the four daughters of Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic), civic leader and chronicler of Newport, R.I.; in Newport. Existing in a climate of literary and artistic success all her life, she gained recognition herself by writing the minor sagas of the people and places she knew well (My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford; This Was My Newport), won the 1917 Pulitzer Prize (with Sister Laura E. Richards) for Julia Ward Howe, a two-volume biography of her mother...
With the decline in tutorial, Lowell's reputation for housing students who consistently get "A's" comes only because Master Elliott Perkins '23, lecturer in History, picks high rank men for the House...
William Yandell Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of Government, and Clyde M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, found themselves "in two-thirds agreement" last night in a Graduate Forum on "Fact and Value in the Social Sciences," but parted company on whether the scientific method was valid in searching for fundamental value...
Professor Elliott maintained that at least one value, "the human soul," could not be discovered empirically, but only through "insight" and "religious experience...