Word: parkhurst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 85, potent reformer; to Mrs. Eleanor Marx, 65, onetime companion of the first Mrs. Parkhurst; in Los Angeles. As president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1891 he instigated the Lexow investigation of the New York Police Department. Richard Croker fled to Europe; Tammany Hall was defeated in the following election; Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Police Commissioner...
...University, they well recall young Instructor Johnson. He has turned novelist since he left the English Faculty, but still lives in Nashville, Tenn. Reading his gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall of the soul of Dr. J. Tanksley Parkhurst, who took his Chaucer and his reputation seriously enough to become Dean, is staged at Thurston College, New England; but the winters are mild, the "you-alls" plentiful. Vanderbilt will take it personally. At other colleges, if the book is read, more detached criticism will find it a story starved...
...KING IN THE MAKING.-Genevieve Parkhurst-Putnam ($2.50). A biography of the Prince of Wales written with enthusiasm by an American. Despite some blunders, a number of princely cliches and a great deal of sentimentality, the book is not without merit as a romantic narrative of the Prince's life...
...policy is so much more progressive than that of institutions like Michigan and Pennsylvania that the outsider is likely to ascribe the policy to an unusual board of trustees. As a matter of fact the list of Dartmouth trustees reads like a page from "The Goose Stop"; Lewis Parkhurst, treasurer of Ginn and Co.; Henry B. Thayer, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Albert O. Brown of the Amoskeag Savings Bank; Prof. John K. Lord, former professor of Latin; Dr. John M. Gile, surgeon; Henry L. Moore, retired treasurer of the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company; Harry H. Blunt...
Philip, London, published Individual Work and the Dalton Plan, by A. J. Lynch, Headmaster of a large elementary public school in London. Mr. Lynch applied the Dalton laboratory plan, as invented by Miss Helen Parkhurst of Dalton, to his large institution, recorded the experiment in his book, was guarded in his conclusions but lucid in his exposition...