Alger scholar Hoyt notes that Alger's morality " coarsened " around 1880, possibly influenced by the Western tales he was writing, because " the most dreadful things were now almost casually proposed and explored ".

* Horatio Alger, scholar and novelist

Other contributors included Dan Abdo, John Accurso, Bill Alger, Graham Annable, Ian Baker, Martin Cendreda, Greg Cook, Dave Cooper, Jordan Crane, Mark Crilley, Scott Cunningham, Vincent Deporter, Stephen DeStefano, Evan Dorkin, Brent Engstrom, Feggo ( Felipe Galindo ), Gary Fields, Emily Flake, Ellen Forney, Francho ( Arnoldo Franchioni ), Dave Fremont, Tom Gauld, Justin Green, Tim Hamilton, Charise Maricle Harper, Paul Karasik, John Kerschbaum, Jacob Lambert, Roger Langridge, Chris Lanier, Robert Leighton, Alec Longstreth, Jason Lutes, Pat Moriarity, Dan Moynihan, Nate Neal, Mark Newgarden, Travis Nichols, Lark Pien, Johnny Ryan, P. Shaw !, Karen Sneider, Israel Sanchez, Jason Shiga, R. Sikoryak, Jen Sorensen, Art Spiegelman, Jay Stephens, Wayno, Todd Webb, Drew Weing, Steve Weissman, Kurt Wolfgang, and Gahan Wilson.

Scharnhorst writes " Financially insecure throughout his life, the younger Alger may have been active in reform organizations such as those for temperance and children's aid as a means of resolving his status-anxiety and establish his genteel credentials for leadership.

Scharnhorst writes that Alger " exercised a certain discretion in discussing his probable homosexuality " and was known to have mentioned his sexuality only once after the Brewster incident.

According to Scharnhorst, Alger made veiled references to homosexuality in his boys ' books and these references, Scharnhorst speculates, indicate Alger was " insecure with his sexual orientation ".

He observes that it is impossible to know whether Alger lived the life of a secret homosexual, " ut there are hints that the male companionship he describes as a refuge from the streets — the cozy domestic arrangements between Dick and Fosdick, for example — may also be an erotic relationship ".

In 1881, Alger informally adopted Charlie Davis, a street boy, and another, John Downie, in 1883 ; they lived in Alger's apartment.

Among other miscellaneous activities, Hunnewell owned the home in which Horatio Alger's father lived until his death, now called the Horatio Alger House in Natick, Massachusetts.

His son, Russell A. Alger, Jr., was instrumental in persuading the Packard Motor Car Company to move to Michigan from Ohio ; he also built in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a palatial Italian Renaissance style estate, " The Moorings ", which was donated in 1949 and became the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, honoring veterans of World War II.

He attended a children's church service at Five Points which led to " John Maynard ", a ballad about an actual shipwreck on Lake Erie that brought Alger not only the respect of the literati but a letter from Longfellow.

Scholar John Geck notes that Alger relied on " formulas for experience rather than shrewd analysis of human behavior ", and that these formulas were " culturally centered " and " strongly didactic ".

" However ", he writes, " he true Americanization of this fairy tale occurs in its subversion of this claiming of nobility ; rather, the Alger hero achieves the American Dream in its nascent form, he gains a position of middle-class respectability that promises to lead wherever his motivation may take him ".

* 2001: Alger, ville blanche (" Algiers, White City ", Fayard ) / 2003: Le Livre de Poche ( LGF )

Impressed by its reliability, he visited the Packards and soon enlisted a group of investors — including Truman Handy Newberry and Russell A. Alger Jr. On October 2, 1902, this group refinanced and renamed the New York and Ohio Automobile Company as " Packard Motor Car Company ", with James as president.

Although its first rumblings came in 1947 with the trial and conviction of the " Hollywood Ten ", the so-called Red Scare was truly gathering steam in the year 1950 with the espionage-related arrests of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the trial of Alger Hiss.

Most notably amongst them would be Hugh of St. Victor, Landolfo Colonna, and Alger of Liège ; both of whom often quoted or cited the Prologus of either his works.

* ( Extensive 1878 text by William Rounseville Alger )

Our knowledge about the geology of the Qattara Depression was greatly extended by Ralph Alger Bagnold, a British military commander and explorer, through numerous journeys in the 1920s and 1930s.

Alger began attending the Chelsea Grammar School in 1842, but by December 1844 his father's financial troubles had increased considerably and, in search of a better salary, he moved his family to Marlborough, Massachusetts, an agricultural town 25 miles west of Boston.

The first Alger biography was a heavily fictionalized account published in 1928 by Herbert R. Mayes, who later admitted the work was a fraud.

Cover of Chester Rand by Alger

Alger wrote, for example, that it was difficult to distinguish whether Tattered Tom was a boy or a girl and in other instances he introduces foppish, effeminate, lisping " stereotypical homosexuals " who are treated with scorn and pity by others.

Alger published about 100 poems and odes, most written by 1875.

In the years following the book's publication, responses to the tale were published by W. M. Swepstone ( Christmas Shadows, 1850 ), Horatio Alger ( Job Warner's Christmas, 1863 ), Louisa May Alcott ( A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True, 1882 ), and others who followed Scrooge's life as a reformed man – or some who thought Dickens had gotten it wrong and needed to be corrected.

Following the early trailblazing work of Grove Karl Gilbert around the turn of the 20th century, a group of natural scientists, geologists and hydraulic engineers including Ralph Alger Bagnold, John Hack, Luna Leopold, Thomas Maddock and Arthur Strahler began to research the form of landscape elements such as rivers and hillslopes by taking systematic, direct, quantitative measurements of aspects of them and investigating the scaling of these measurements.

Cleveland was first settled in 1884 by Samuel Nelson Alger and Henry Sr.

Alger was first settled by Frederick G. Abbey in 1884.

Critics also assert that Joseph Smith instituted polygamy in order to cover-up an 1835 adulterous affair with a neighbor's daughter, Fanny Alger, by taking Alger as his second wife.

The use of the term " gentleman " is a central concept in many books of American Literature: " Adrift in New York ," by Horatio Alger ; " Fraternity: A Romance of Inspiration ," by Anonymous, with a tipped in Letter from J. P. Morgan, ( 1836 ); " Gone with the Wind ," Margaret Mitchell ( 1936 ).

* Gordon E. Moore Association by the Horatio Alger Foundation

* Libyan Sands, Travel in a Dead World about the travels of R. A. Bagnold by Ralph Alger Bagnold

This appointment fell through, but Sheridan was subsequently aided by friends ( including future Secretary of War Russell A. Alger ), who petitioned Michigan Governor Austin Blair on his behalf.

The series interviewed major members of the Allied and Axis campaigns, including eyewitness accounts by civilians, enlisted men, officers and politicians, amongst them Albert Speer, Karl Dönitz, Walter Warlimont, James Stewart, Bill Mauldin, W. Averell Harriman, Curtis LeMay, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Alger Hiss, Toshikazu Kase, Mitsuo Fuchida, Minoru Genda, J.

The House Un-American Activities Committee, with young Congressman Richard M. Nixon playing a central role, accused Alger Hiss, a top Roosevelt aide, of being a Communist spy, using testimony and documents provided by Whittaker Chambers.

The realm of the dey of Alger was divided into three provinces ( Constantine, Titteri and Mascara ), each of which was administered by a bey ( باي ) whom he appointed.

* Pan-African Cultural Festival / Festival Panafricain d ' Alger ( 1969 ) by William Klein, France / Algeria.

* August 25 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring " Confrontation Day " between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

In New York, Alger continued to tutor the town's aristocratic youth and to rehabilitate its street boys.

* Alger Hiss recounts transporting the UN Charter after its signing.

A post office named Sand River was established in Alger County on March 14, 1891, with Charles A. Hazen as its first postmaster.

In his compendium of Joseph Smith's plural marriages, Todd Compton discusses this late nineteenth-century evidence and its differing reliability, concluding that Smith's relationship with Alger, though fleeting, was more than a casual sexual affair and that she was " one of Joseph Smith's earliest plural wives.

On its legal staff were Lee Pressman, Alger Hiss and John Abt ( later named by Elizabeth Bentley as one of her contacts ).

Its eastern half is anchored by the Alger Fountain and capped on its north western edge with a statue of William Cotter Maybury.

Alger Island came from the family name of its longtime owners, father and son Mort and Ollie Alger.

The dorm was originally used for all classes, as evidenced by famous residents like Thomas Bulfinch and Horatio Alger being housed in it multiple times, but was predominantly used for housing seniors during its early existence.