Word: thornton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Ostensibly the account of one man's life, this is in reality a keen, sweeping arraignment of the destructive forces of "Waste" which the author visions as imperilling the America of today. His protagonist, Jarvis Thornton, ultimately works out a philosophy which one dimly feels to be the author's own panacea?if, indeed, one can be found?for the danger...
...college days Thornton first perceives these undermining forces at work; sees his classmates abandoning their first high, nebulous hopes of achievement, for some concrete form of business which will assure them wealth. And shortly after college, he is himself drawn into the menacing vortex, by a tragically mistaken marriage...
...Following his death the book changed hands, going to Warhan Williams of the class of 1719, minister of the church in Watertown from 1723 to 1751. A later owner was the Rev. Samuel Sewall, a great grandson of Judge Sewall, who gave the book in 1850 to J. Wingate Thornton, L.L.B. 1840, of Boston...
...Merrill Thornton Dow, S.B., A.M. (Physics...
...Proceeds will go toward the repair of palace and grounds, which have been allowed to fall literally into ruin. Joseph Pennell, distinguished etcher, after a successful invasion of the untried field of water color, has turned his talent to picture postcards. In Philadelphia, five-cent postcards by Pennell and Thornton Oakley are being exhibited. The British Society of Architects offers three annual scholarships, valued at ?300 each, open to British subjects under 40. The holder of the first is required to spend six months of architectural study in America-a graceful compliment...