Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of a Robert Louis Stevenson exhibit in the Widener Memorial Room, three woodcut plates designed by the author are shown, with several old Spanish coin, or "pieces of eight," and a first edition of "Treasure Island." Three original water color drawings by William Blake are also on display, with "the Book of Job," illustrated by Blake...
...Thaddeus Rich. When he heard that Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was nearing Mexico City (see p. 28), President Coolidge took-pen-in-hand and signed an act of Congress conferring the Congressional Medal on Col. Lindbergh. A little while later, while the President was sitting to Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Wright of Cleveland for his portrait, the daughter of another President called at the White House-Miss Aleccia Elias Calles of Mexico City, with two friends.* Young Miss Calles, dark and dashing, was bubbling with "the wonderful news" and wanted to see President Coolidge at once. Unfortunately, diplomatic ritual prevented. There...
...taste and the absolute independence of his judgment. He would not even consider anything that did not meet three tests: it must be simple, of superior literary technique, and of wholesome human sentiment. No author's name would recommend a selection deficient in any one requirement. For example, Stevenson's children's verses were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie' in it, even if Alfred Tennyson did write it." I fondly thought that Campbell's "Battle of the Baltic" would appeal to him, for it contained the phrase...
EDWARD F. STEVENSON...
Haddon entered the Edinburgh Academy in 1916 at the age of 12 to prepare for Edinburgh University. Sir Walter Scott was one of the founders of the Academy, and Robert Louis Stevenson studied there, as well as Sir James Clerk-Maxwell, Andrew Lang, Lord Haldane, and Lord Finlay, President of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Haddon played Rugby football while at the Academy, won several class and special prizes, and in his last year was head of his house. In 1922 he entered the University of Edinburgh as a candidate for the Master of Arts degree, which he received...