Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Alexander Steuart, 69, Scottish author (A Millionaire's Daughters; The Immortal Lover) after long illness; in Bootle, England. He was famed for dispelling an aroma of sanctity with his Robert Louis Stevenson, Man & Writer, a critical biography...
...this book he flays not our fiscal system but the appearance of our bills. At the same time he offers suggestions for redesigning them. Other volumes of note are his Balzae's "Droll Stories," Poes "Tales," a charming little edition in two volumes of Daudet's "Tartarin of Tarascon," Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and H. G. Wells' "Time Machine," which contains a new introduction by the author...
...oldest college west of the Alleghenies. Some of its original land is said to have been given by George Washington. Among its alumni: the late Composer Stephen Collins Foster ("Swanee River," "Old Black Joe," "My Old Kentucky Home"), the late James Gillespie Elaine, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Professor John Livingston Lowes of Harvard, Peter Moore Speer, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., the late Episcopal Bishop Coadjutator David Hummell Greer of New York, the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania. W. & J. students are fond of virile gear such...
Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of History, has recently been invited to take the Nathaniel Stevenson Chair of International History at the London School of Economics, which is closely connected with Kings College of London University. Professor Webster will assume the position in September...
...Stevenson and the Scottish Highlands", Mr. Hersey, Emerson...