From:  Richard Turner  Subject:  Scattergood  I went to a Quaker boarding school established in the late 19th century called Scattergood.  The name was adopted literally with the intent to “scatter good” into the world through its graduates.  This is the meaning that I have associated with the word.  

From:  Michael Feinberg  Subject:  Scattergood   In Philadelphia, Scattergood Foundation is a major charitable donor. 

From:  William Pease  Subject:  Scattergood   Older readers will recall Scattergood Baines, a character in short stories by Clarence Budington Kelland and a 1941 movie.  AWADmail Issue 1110    

Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate in 1715.  His plays and poems were well-received during his lifetime, with one of his translations described as one of the greatest productions in English poetry.  He was also considered the first editor of the works of William Shakespeare.  On his father's death, when he was nineteen, he became the master of an independent fortune.  He was left to his own direction, and from that time ignored law to try his hand first at poetry, and then later at writing plays.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Rowe_(writer)    

Stilton is an English cheese, produced in two varieties:  Blue, which has Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White, which does not.  Both have been granted the status of a protected designation of origin (PDO) by the European Commission, requiring that only such cheese produced in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire may be called Stilton.   The cheese takes its name from the village of Stilton, now in Cambridgeshire, where it has long been sold.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilton_cheese    

In mathematics, a sequence is an enumerated collection of objects in which repetitions are allowed and order matters.  Like a set, it contains members (also called elements, or terms).  The number of elements (possibly infinite) is called the length of the sequence.  Unlike a set, the same elements can appear multiple times at different positions in a sequence, and unlike a set, the order does matter.  Formally, a sequence can be defined as a function from natural numbers (the positions of elements in the sequence) to the elements at each position.  In computing and computer science, finite sequences are sometimes called strings, words or lists, the different names commonly corresponding to different ways to represent them in computer memory; infinite sequences are called streams.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence     

Louise Glück, the celebrated American poet and winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on October 13, 2023 at her home in Cambridge, Mass.  She was 80.  Glück, considered one of the foremost voices in American poetry, served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2004 and was the author of 15 collections.  Her debut collection, the aptly titled Firstborn, was published by New American Library in 1968.  She went on to publish nine books with Ecco from 1975 until 2006, and published her final five books with publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  Known for her austere, autobiographical lyricism, Glück explored such themes as loss, loneliness, heartbreak, marriage, trauma, and aging in her work, which often contained classical allusions, philosophical questions, and intimate memories.  Many of her poems, such as the well-known "Mock Orange" and "Dead End," express disillusionment with love and romance, while others, such as "New World" and "First Memory," mine the pain of childhood.  Born in New York City in 1943 and raised on Long Island, Glück attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University.  At the time of her death, she lived in Cambridge and taught at Yale University.  Over the course of her career, Glück received just about every literary honor there is.  In 1985, she won the National Book Critics Circle award for The Triumph of Achilles, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (and the William Carlos Williams Award) in 1993 for Wild Iris, perhaps her best known work.  Her 2014 collection Faithful and Virtuous Night won the 2014 National Book Award.  In 2015, she was awarded a National Humanities Medal for her "decades of powerful lyric poetry that defies all attempts to label it definitively."  Glück was also the recipient of the Bollingen Prize for lifetime achievement, the American Academy Arts and Letters Gold Medal, and the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award.  Sophia Stewart  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/Obituary/article/93426-louise-gluck-nobel-prize-winning-poet-dies-at-80.html   

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