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Died. Dr. Charles Mills Gayley, 74, professor emeritus of English at University of California, author of Classic Myths in English Literature, member of the Legion of Honor; in Berkeley, Calif...
...Time-Future may win him the Nobel Prize (TIME, April 28) ; Professor Andrew Cowper Lawson, international geologist, onetime (1914-18) dean of the College of Mining. For his good humor as well as his capabilities, dear to the heart of many a Californian is Professor Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley, pedagog and poetaster ? with whom Governor Clement Calhoun Young once collaborated on a text on English poetry...
...Frick his chief partner-in Carnegie Bros. That was in 1889. But theirs was no close friendship. Both were too individualistic. Eventually they quarreled, called each other names, separated, but this was after Frick, with the aid of some Carnegie men-Charles M. Schwab, William Ellis Corey and James Gayley-had smashed the bloody, massacring Homestead Strike of 1892. In the riots Anarchist Alexander Berkman shot Frick, stabbed him thrice...
...London office at 50 Russell Square offers similar facilities and arranges for students to obtain reading tickets for the British Museum Library, the Record Office, etc. Dean C. M. Gayley, of the University of California, will continue to act as Director until September, when he will be succeeded by Professor R. M. Wenley, of the University of Mhicigan. The Assistant Director is R. H. Simpson, who has prepared a pamphlet "Guide for American Students of the British Isles" which may be obtained by application to the Secretary of the Union, Professor J. W. Cunliffe, Journalism Building, Columbia University, New York...
...tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry Wysham Lanier, of the Review of Reviews, assisted by Dr. William Lyon Phelps, high priest of letters at Yale University, Stuart P. Sherman, literary editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, John Cotton Dana, Newark librarian, and Professor-Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley of the University of California-had made a profuse but neat collection of tales, poems and tag-end tid-bits from great writers of all ages. Pages of parallel quotations were entitled Some Women I Have Met and How Men Make Love in Novels. There was a Booklover...