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...SPORTED A FULL BEARD WHILE PROMINENT MEMBER OF YALE '98 FOOTBALL TEAM. SURVEY OF COLGATE FACULTY REVEALS SEVEN BEARDISTS AND TWENTY-ONE MUSTACHERS AMONG ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS. PROMINENT BEARDISTS ARE WILLIAM HENRY CRAWSHAW, DONALD ANDERSON LAIRD, ALBERT PERRY BRIGHAM, JOSEPH FRANK MCGREGORY. NO BEARDIST SINCE HIS COLLEGE DAYS, ACADIA-TRAINED PRESIDENT CUTTEN HAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OF FIVE CLEAN-SHAVEN, EIGHT MUSTACHERS AND ONE BEARDIST...
...Eaton is a member of ten clubs, including a fishing club and two hunt clubs, one of which, at Northfield, Ohio (where Acadia Farms, his summer home, is located) he founded and subsidized. He has made many gifts (one of $250,000) to McMasters University, also to Denison University (Ohio), and is a University of Chicago trustee. On a visit to his home town of Pugwash he disliked the hotel accommodations, so undertook a campaign of municipal improvement which included the straightening of Main Street, a park, and a new hotel. Shortly after these improvements, the whole town was practically...
Three hundred years ago a band of Scotsmen, wearied of ecclesiastical feuds and tyrannous wars, sailed for America. Seeking a climate like their own they landed in Acadia, secured a grant from James I, fought the French, remained at Nova Scotia and colonized. Later some of them moved westward. Today Scottish-Canadians largely people the Dominion...
...Rogers Frey 2G., New York City, S.B. 1920, A.M. 1924, Townsend Scholar, Physics; Frank Albert Gilbert Jr. 2G., Wenham, S.B. Massachusetts Agricultural College 1922, Candidate for A.M., Botany; James White Gould 1G., Greenfield, Ill., A.B. 1922, University Scholar, Candidate for A.M., Classics: George Claude Hicks 1G., Moncton, N.B., A.B. Acadia University 1922, Candidate for A.M., Biology; Frederic Chapin Lane 1G., Cambridge, A.B. Cornell University 1921, A.M. Tufts College 1922, History; Earl Godfrey Mellor A.B., Worcester, A.B. Clark College 1918, Instructor in Romance Languages, Clark University, Romance Languages; Harry Rowe Mimno E.E., Troy, N. Y., E.E. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1921, Instructor...
...descent, his boyhood was spent at Freetown, Prince Edward Island. He studied at London, Paris, and Edinburgh, taking a B.A, M.A. and Sc.D. He then obtained a traveling scholarship which took him to Heidelberg, Berlin, Gottingen and finally to Italy and Switzerland. In 1880, he took a professorship in Acadia College, Nova Scotia. Four years later, he went to Cornell as professor, and was President there from 1892 to 1920. In 1892 he became a U. S. citizen. He served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912-13. In 1921, having pretty well explored Europe and North...