Word: elliott
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Standish Hall members of Lowell House were introduced to the House system at an informal 7 o'clock meeting last evening in the Lowell Junior Common Room. Over 35 Freshmen heard speeches by Elliott Perkins '23, lecturer in History and Master of Lowell House, and by Charles T. Noonan '46, chairman of the House Committee...
Georgia-born, orphaned Margaret Axson was raised by two remarkable relatives -in childhood by her Aunt Louisa; in adolescence by her brother-in-law Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton. Now, as Margaret Axson Elliott, wife of Princeton's onetime Dean Edward C. Elliott, the sister of the first Mrs. Wilson has recorded her memories of these guardians who taught her the value of principles, courage and tolerance. Readers of My Aunt Louisa and Woodrow Wilson are likely to neglect worthy Aunt Louisa, for the interest and value of Author Elliott's unprofessional book are mainly...
THIS WAS MY NEWPORT-Maud Howe Elliott-The Mythology...
...without ever having been able to live down or live up to that solitary performance. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, a romantic figure, a friend of Lafayette, a soldier in the wars for Greek and Polish independence. In This Was My Newport, Daughter Maud Howe Elliott, now 90, tells what it was like to be the child of celebrities, in a 269-page volume that is half personal and family history, half a reminiscent guide to Newport, and altogether with. out a breath of scandal, malice, adventure or repining...
This is as close to rough talk as This Was My Newport ever gets. The memories of Maud Howe Elliott reach back to the days when Newport tradespeople sent out their bills once or twice a year and closed their shops at noon. At the height of the Newport season, the regulars counted on dining out every night of the week. At two Newport homes, Mrs. Ogden Mills's and Mrs. Elbridge Gerry's, dinner for 100 could be served without calling in outside help. Dinner began at 8:30 and lasted three hours, until King Edward...