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...London Times called Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke "one of the most original if unrecognized figures of the present century." London University Physicist J. D. Bernal said he was "one of the greatest . . . geniuses of his time." What made Pyke so extraordinary was his consistent belief that a human being could reason his way through any problem. That belief rammed Geoffrey Pyke's bald head into-and sometimes through-one stone wall after another...
...time began. He was forced to return to Gardiner because his father had died; the family funds were lost in the financial panic of that year. Yet none of these matters were discussed in his letters to Smith. He continued to write, instead, about Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold and Nathaniel Hawthorne. During these dreary years he was writing many of the poems that were later hailed as his masterpieces (Luke Haver gal, Richard Cory) and finding that he could place few of them in any magazine in the country. He kept his defeats to himself, letting them eat his soul...
Time has not slighted the castled structure that has been standing at 10 Garden Street for the last hundred and forty years. Since Nathaniel Ireland built the house in 1807, it has grown steadily in size and importance, until today it is the center of a large women's college. Attitudes toward Fay House have changed too, though the trend has been different. In 1819 it was called, "One of the most pleasant and eligible situations in Cambridge for a literary gentleman," while a remark heard the other day went something like, "A gracious house, sure; but it must...
Those in the first four include: Nathaniel Ober '50, Philip D. Assaf '46, Martin Grelley '48, and Scott Carlisle '46. An additional 36 men will receive their commissions in June upon completion of the advanced Military Science course...
...management finally woke up to what seemed an alarming fact: the company was about to be sold from under it. Frantically President Lawson Stone, who said he knew nothing about the deal, demanded that the buyer identify himself. He got no more information. New York's Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein got into the act: he had a clue. The figures 625, he said, if ticked off on the alphabet, read FEE. That corresponded to the Follansbee ticker symbol: FEE. The Securities & Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange were also looking into the deal...