| | 2 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in
Open Session, at 12:50 p.m., on Thursday, April 11, 1996, in the East Oval Room of
the Rotunda with the following persons present:
Hovey S. Dabney, Rector, John P.
Ackerly, III, Franklin K. Birckhead, Mortimer M. Caplin, Charles M. Caravati, Jr.,
Matthew W. Cooper, Warner N. Dalhouse, William H. Goodwin, Jr., T. Keister
Greer, Mrs. Elsie Goodwyn Holland, Evans B. Jessee, Arnold H. Leon, C. Wilson
McNeely, III, Albert H. Small, Ms. Elizabeth A. Twohy and Henry L. Valentine, II.
John T. Casteen, III, Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr., Paul J. Forch, Leonard W. Sandridge,
Jr., Peter W. Low, Robert W. Cantrell, Ms. Polley McClure, Ms. Colette Capone,
Robert D. Sweeney, Ernest H. Ern, William W. Harmon, Don E. Detmer, and Ms.
Jeanne Flippo Bailes were also present. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 3 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in Open
Session, at 2:10 p.m., on Friday, April 12, 1996, in the Dome Room of the Rotunda
with the following persons present: Hovey S. Dabney, Rector, John P. Ackerly, III,
Franklin K. Birckhead, Mortimer M. Caplin, Charles M. Caravati, Jr., Matthew W.
Cooper, Warner N. Dalhouse, William H. Goodwin, T. Keister Greer, Mrs. Elsie
Goodwyn Holland, Evans B. Jessee, Arnold H. Leon, C. Wilson McNeely, III, Albert
H. Small, Ms. Elizabeth A. Twohy and Henry L. Valentine, II.
John T. Casteen, III,
Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr., Paul J. Forch, Leonard W. Sandridge, Jr., Peter W. Low,
Robert W. Cantrell, Ms. Polley McClure, Ms. Colette Capone, Robert D. Sweeney,
Ernest H. Ern, William W. Harmon, Don E. Detmer,
and Ms. Jeanne Flippo Bailes were also present. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 11 | Author: | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | Add | | | Title: | Driven From Home | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A BOY of sixteen, with a small gripsack in
his hand, trudged along the country road. He
was of good height for his age, strongly built,
and had a frank, attractive face. He was
naturally of a cheerful temperament, but at present
his face was grave, and not without a shade
of anxiety. This can hardly be a matter of
surprise when we consider that he was thrown
upon his own resources, and that his available
capital consisted of thirty-seven cents in
money, in addition to a good education and
a rather unusual amount of physical strength.
These last two items were certainly valuable,
but they cannot always be exchanged for the
necessaries and comforts of life. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 13 | Author: | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | Add | | | Title: | Ragged Dick, or, Street Life in New York | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Cover of Ragged Dick
Magenta cloth cover embossed with victorian design
Spine of Ragged Dick
Magenta cloth, gold embossed with title and image of the main character.
Frontispiece of Ragged Dick
Engraving of the main character, his shoe-shine box before him. He is standing outdoors, apparently in front of a public park.
Title Page of Ragged Dick | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 14 | Author: | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | Add | | | Title: | The Triumph of the Egg | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MY father was, I am sure, intended by nature to be a cheerful,
kindly man. Until he was thirty-four years old he worked as a
farm-hand for a man named Thomas Butterworth whose place lay near the
town of Bidwell, Ohio. He had then a horse of his own and on Saturday
evenings drove into town to spend a few hours in social intercourse
with other farm-hands. In town he drank several glasses of beer and
stood about in Ben Head's saloon—crowded on Saturday evenings with
visiting farm-hands. Songs were sung and glasses thumped on the bar.
At ten o'clock father drove home along a lonely country road, made his
horse comfortable for the night and himself went to bed, quite happy in
his position in life. He had at that time no notion of trying to rise
in the world. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 16 | Author: | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888: Anonymous review | Add | | | Title: | "Little Women" on the Stage | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At last there is to be a stage version of Little Women,
that story which since its publication in 1868 has appealed to so
many generations of readers. The dramatisation has been made by
Miss Jessie Bonstelle (Mrs. Alexander Stuart), who for eight years
has been working to obtain the necessary permission. The
copyrights were in the possession of Miss Alcott's two nephews, the
famous twins, "Daisy" and "Demi" (John and Demijohn), sons of Miss
Alcott's last surviving sister, Mrs. Anna B. Pratt, to whom one of
the editions, published by Little, Brown and Company, in 1889, was
dedicated in these words: "The Sole Surviving Sister of Louisa M.
Alcott, and Her Never Failing Help, Comforter and Friend from Birth
to Death." In Boston the two Pratt boys when growing up were
pointed out as the famous twins, just as Vivian Burnett was pointed
out as Little Lord Fauntleroy. There has been a certain New
England prejudice against making a play of the story, although Miss
Alcott herself was fond of the theatre and actually wrote herself
a short comedy which was produced at the Boston Theatre. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 20 | Author: | Crane review: Anonymous | Add | | | Title: | Stephen Crane: A "Wonderful Boy." | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE death of Mr. Stephen Crane, while yet barely thirty, is widely
regarded as a serious loss to American literature, one which it can
ill afford. Mr. Crane, who had for some time past resided in
Surrey, England, had been critically ill for some months previous
to his death and had lately been taken to Baden to obtain the
benefit of the waters. His best known works are: "Maggie: A Girl
of the Streets"; "The Red Badge of Courage"; "The Little
Regiment"'; "The Black Riders"; "War Is Kind"; "The Open Boat";
"The Third Violet"; "George's Mother"; and "Active Service."
The Late Stephen Crane.
Newspaper photo. Portrait of Stephen Crane.
Photographer unknown.
In three somewhat widely separated lines of fiction—stories of
slum-life (especially of the demi-monde), war stories, and tales about
boy-life—Mr. Crane attained notable success. By many critics it
is doubted whether any one has ever got nearer the spirit of the
boy of today than has Stephen Crane in these latter tales, altho'
his fame has been founded more upon his stories of low-life and of
war. Whether his fame would ever have reached a higher level is
open to doubt, and perhaps critical opinion largely leans to the
judgment that his artistic attainment would never have been able to
go beyond the extremely clever but impressionistic word-painting of
the work already produced by him. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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