Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923
Such hosts of memories come tumbling in on me. More than fifteen years ago, on September 3, 1903, I met Carl Parker. He had just returned to college, two weeks late for the beginning of his Senior year. There was much concern among his friends, for he had gone on a two months'...
About this time we had a friend come into our lives who was destined to mean great things to the Parkers--Max Rosenberg. He had heard Carl lecture once or twice, had met him thr...
16. Chapter 16I am forever grateful that Carl had his experience at the University of Washington before he died. He left the University of California a young Assistant Professor, just one reb...
10. Chapter 10The second term in California had just got well under way when Carl was offered the position of Executive Secretary in the State Immigration and Housing Commission of California...
18. Chapter 18One of the days in Seattle that I think of most was about a month before the end. The father of a great friend of ours died, and Carl and I went to the funeral one Sunday aftern...
13. Chapter 13Three days after Carl started east, on his arrival in Seattle, President Suzzallo called him to the University of Washington as Head of the Department of Economics and Dean of t...
4. Chapter 4On July 3, the Marvelous Son was born, and never was there such a father. Even the trained nurse, hardened to new fathers by years of experience, admitted that she never had see...
2. Chapter 2After we decided to get married, and that as soon as ever we could,--I being a Freshman at the ripe and mature age of, as mentioned, just eighteen years, he a Senior, with no pa...
17. Chapter 17As soon as the I.W.W. article was done, Carl had to begin on his paper to be read before the Economic Association, just after Christmas, in Philadelphia. That was fun working ov...
15. Chapter 15At the end of August the little family was united again in Seattle. Almost the clearest picture of Carl I have is the eager look with which he scanned the people stepping out of...
3. Chapter 3There were three boys in the Parker family, and one girl. Each of the other brothers had been encouraged to see the world, and in his turn Carl planned fourteen months in Europe...
11. Chapter 11In January, 1915, Carl took up his teaching again in real earnest, commuting to Alamo every night. I would have the boys in bed and the little supper all ready by the fire; then...
14. Chapter 14In May we sold our loved hill nest in Berkeley and started north, stopping for a three months' vacation--our first real vacation since we had been married--at Castle Crags, wher...
7. Chapter 7The next two weeks were filled with vicissitudes. The idea was for Carl to settle the little family in some rural bit of Germany, while he did research work in the industrial se...
5. Chapter 5We finished our year at Harvard, giving up the A.M. idea for the present. Carl got A's in every subject and was asked to take a teaching fellowship under Ripley; but it was Euro...
6. Chapter 6Here I sit back, and words fail me. I see that year as a kaleidoscope of one joyful day after another, each rushing by and leaving the memory that we both always had, of the mos...
8. Chapter 8We looked back always on our first semester's teaching in the University of California as one hectic term. We had lived our own lives, found our own joys, for four years, and he...
9. Chapter 9stimulating this looking in on a group of University men has been. It in itself is worth the trip. I feel sure of my field of work; that I am not going off in unfruitful directi...
1. Chapter 1Such hosts of memories come tumbling in on me. More than fifteen years ago, on September 3, 1903, I met Carl Parker. He had just returned to college, two weeks late for the begi...