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...family moved to Manhattan, where Upton put himself through Columbia as a special student by writing boys' adventure stories for the pulp magazines under the names of "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, U. S. A." and "Ensign Clarke Fitch, U. S. N." In 1900, when he was 22, he married Meta Fuller, whose father was a newspaperman, whose mother was an old friend of Mrs. Sinclair's. They had a baby at once but the parents separated them until Upton could make enough to support his wife. Not until 1903 did the young Sinclairs set up housekeeping-in a tent...
...this came from Lawrence's conviction that Murry was not willing to "destroy us both" for perfect understanding. Mr. Murry has given us a strange, and a touching, meta-physical exegesis of these passages. Mrs. Carswell took the more obvious line of branding Murry as a traitor to Lawrence; Murry has shown that she left very little of literary ethic intact after "The Savage Pilgrimage". As a document for the understanding of the controversy. Mr. Murry's book is valuable, as a key to Mr. Murry's psychology it takes rank with his life of Christ and his "metabiological treatise...
With her husband Blair Banister, an insurance man, she lives in an apartment on Dupont Circle. Her daughter, Margaret. 38, works at Sweet Briar College of which the new U. S. Assistant Treasurer's sister, Dr. Meta Glass, is president...
Elected. Dr. Meta Glass, president of Sweetbriar College (Va). sister of Senator Carter Glass; to be president of the American Association of University Women, succeeding Dr. Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke; at the biennial convention; in Minneapolis, Minn...
...appealed to them to make the half-way approach to other nationalities that is necessary if friendships are to form. To Graduate School men in particular were the speaker's words of appeal that the men of higher academic pursuits in specialized subjects should not fall into the meta-tragic error of being born men, but of dying as physicists or physicians. Humanity must not suffer itself to be buried and dried up by the exhausting requirements of higher study, maintained Dean Sperry...