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...didn't go. Stella just was " impossible." She loved noise and flamboyant clothes and musical comedies and giggling semi-flirtations. Stephen liked symphony-concerts and improving books and quiet. They produced one daughter, Laurel, at first to Stella's loudly expressed distaste. Then Stephen took a job in New York. They drifted apart?at last were separated. Stella herself was getting commoner and commoner. Meanwhile Stephen had resumed a strictly intellectual acquaintance with a highly refined first-love, now widowed?and had become well...
...natural accidents?a sudden " crush " of Laurel's on the widowed first-love?the revival of an ancient and baseless scandal about Stella herself?made the issue plain. Stella saw that Laurel wasn't her kind? that she herself was the handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them?let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South...
...Died. Laurel Tarkington, 17, daughter of Booth Tarkington, the author, in Indianapolis, of pneumonia...
...subject, "outsider" though he may incidentally, we must prove our rights to an education at Harvard if Harvard is to mean anything in the future, and when a "red-cap" shows us the way, he if only in a single instance, it is time to look to our laurel...
...Harvard intellectually is in the stagnant backwaters. "Some who have their doubts", says he, "as they look upon the fresh waters flowing by their college, doors, may remember that a professorship at Harvard is the academic kingdom of heaven for all those who labor with rod and stylus . . . The laurel of respectability will be laid on this volume as it was upon its four predecessors. It is altogether fitting...