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...judges of the Debate to be held in Paine Hall tomorrow evening will be W. J. Abbott, Editor of the Christian Science Monitor; Reverend A. D. Leavitt of the Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline; and G. F. Williams '09, a Boston Attorney...
Many former Crimson stars will be found in the Alumni line-up Among them are E. W. Mahan '16, R. W. Fmmons '21, G. N. Abbott '14, Lee Todd '26, and N. C. Curic...
...mystery surrounding gruff, impetuous, well-loved Dr. Mather Almon Abbott's resignation as headmaster of Lawrenceville School (TIME, Feb. 21), remained a mystery. And Dr. Abbott, withdrawing his resignation, remained headmaster. Whatever it was that had prompted the resignation?an offer from another school? a quarrel with the trustees over a four-year-old medical supervision policy??was kept secret, and Dr. Abbott was kept headmaster, chiefly through action of the Lawrenceville boys. They posted a deputy to keep strangers from their grounds. They observed a self-imposed censorship of conversation. If that traditional confidant and encyclopedist of Lawrenceville...
...sharp-eyed newsgatherer saw that Dr. Abbott's name and pledge for $1,000 headed a posted list of subscribers for a new Lawrenceville dormitory. It was tangible evidence to bear out Dr. Abbott's gruff, nervous statement: "I have put eight years of ceaseless devotion into it, trying to make it the best school in the country...
Eight years ago Dr. Abbott was "Bott" Abbott to Yale oarsmen- their head coach in 1918-19. In 1917 he had organized the Yale Naval Unit. Before that he was famed as a professor of Greek and Latin at ultra-conservative Groton School, to which he went, with his bride, in 1897. Further back are his Nova Scotia birth, his training at King's College (Windsor, N. S.) and Worcester College, Oxford...