Word: written
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article on Mexico is vividly and tersely written, but aside from being recounted by an eye-witness, differs little from the usual treatment of this subject. The attention of the editors should be called to the erroneous placing among the news notes of the fact that Dartmouth men prefer the "D" to the Phi Beta Kappa...
...building. Amongst the furniture which adorns the room are five beautiful old mahogany book-cases which formerly stood in the bedroom of the late Harry Elkins Widener '07. Of these five cases, the one in the east corner of the room contains only those books which have been written by either active or retired members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who are at present alive. In the case in the north corner of the room are only those books which have been written by members of the Faculty who are no longer living...
...compiling the figures presented below, letters were written to about forty-five schools and answers were received from twenty-nine of them as here given. The three questions asked each were as follows: Number of men in senior class going to the University, Yale and Princeton respectively; number of men in senior class who had won their letters, going to these three institutions; and college choice of major sport captains...
...edition of the book. It was published by Charles Scribner's of New York in 1886. The real interest in the book, however, centres about the inscription. Stevenson gave the volume in 1886 to his dear friend and collaborator in his dramatic works, William Ernest Henley. Four plays were written by the two writers, but most of the plays of Stevenson were unsuccessful. The four works were "Admiral Guinea," "Bean Austin," "Macaire," and "Deacon Brodie." The inscription Stevenson wrote on the fly-leaf is as follows...
...Ireland's gift to Widener is a letter Stevenson wrote her husband in reply to a note informing Stevenson of the source of some allusions in "A Gossip on Romance," a magazine article of 1883 written by the English literary man on his dim recollections of some stories his parents read to him when a boy. The third point he makes is more generally interesting and amusing than the first two. The point of the letter is that Mr. Ireland had, as he himself declared, addressed the epistle with "inspired stupidity" to "Mr. R. L. Stephenson." The letter reads...