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Gummere married Amelia Smith Mott (1859-1937) in 1882; she was a noted scholar of Quaker history. Their son Richard Mott Gummere was a professor of Latin and headmaster of the William Penn Charter School. Their second son Samuel James Gummere had a military career, reaching the rank of major. A third son, Francis Barton Gummere Jr., was an invalid.
The novel begins with Suttree observing police pull a suicide victim from the river. Suttree lives alone in a houseboat, on the fringes of society on the Tennessee River, earning money by fishing for the occasional catfish. He has left a life of luxury, rejecting his parents' influence, and abandoned his wife and young son.
John Gummere (1784-1845) was an American astronomer and one of the founders of Haverford College in Pennsylvania. [1] He was born in 1784 near Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. [ 2 ] His son Samuel James Gummere (1811-1874) was the first president of Haverford College , and his grandson Francis Barton Gummere (1855-1919) was an influential scholar of ...
In the end, the pictures still told the story in the annual report. Walt okayed the images and caption copy identify-ing the Disney project only. No names were used; no indi-viduals were identified or credited in the photos. We all got the message. In thinking about this portion of the book, I realized that
The real hero of the poem is a society's will to take intelligible form; the real quest is for physical and spiritual communication within that society. I have a notion that the technical problems involved in Towards the Last Spike are going to be central problems in the poetry of the future. And I think that the ingenuity with which these ...
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I nearly went but since the war started, my belief in a God had suffered a reverse. I couldn't equate all the killing by two sides, both of whom claimed to be a Christian society. I was, as Gary Cooper would say, 'kinda mixed up inside'. On 5 December the men are billeted in a four-story Victorian Gothic farmhouse, including utility buildings.
Marian Thurm, class of 1974 – author of short stories and novels, has taught Creative Writing at Yale and Columbia; Elizabeth Spires, class of 1974 – poet and children's book writer; Paco Underhill, class of 1975 – environmental psychologist and business writer; Judith Regan, class of 1975 – publisher