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Last week Lyon Gardiner Tyler, son of the tenth President of the U.S., 70 years of age, President Emeritus of William and Mary College, took a second wife. Except for seven years engaged in law practice in Richmond, Dr. Tyler has spent his life as an educator. He was President of William and Mary College from 1898 until his resignation in 1919. His first marriage took place 45 years ago. A widower, he married Miss Sue Ruffin, 35, great granddaughter of the man who fired the first gun at Fort Sumter. Dr. Tyler and his bride will live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sons | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

Professor Charles Foster Kent, of Yale, collaborating with Henry A. Sherman, head of publisher Scribner's religious literature department, recently brought out a Children's Bible. This was severely attacked by Professor William Lyon Phelps, of Yale, who parodied Hamlet's soliloquy as follows: "I wonder whether or not I shall exist after death. Is it better to stick around a little longer or to try to win out by suicide ?" However, the Kent-Sherman Bible is considered the best in the children's field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Bible | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

Thanks State Attorney Lyon, of Virginia, for saving Negro from mob. July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 'The Causes of Distress | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

Died. Angus Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 24, first cousin of the Duchess of York, suicide, supposedly because of the breaking of his engagement to Miss Freda Parsons, at Ripley, Surrey, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engaged | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

Electrification of railways in the South is progressing rapidly. It is expected that the entire main line of the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranéen Railway stretching from Paris to Ventimiglia on the Italian frontier will be electrified next year. It is said that France will have, in fifteen years, the finest railway system in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Electrified Railways | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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