Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among these agile regionalists none is subtler than Poet Allen Tate, who has written biographies (Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis), contributed to regional anthologies,, made himself their best-known spokesman. The Fathers, his first novel, exhibits Border-State mentality at its most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during the first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans...
Very auspicious circumstances surrounded the opening of the annual Harvard-Yale R.O.T.C. camp at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, on June 26th, for its fame had even penetrated to the golden shores of California, and the University of Santa Clara honored the camp with one of its sons...
...first two weeks of camp were spent at the Post of Fort Ethan Allen, in order to prepare the men for the rigors of the life on the range where the "rabbits and the mosquitos play." The high point of this period of acclimatization was the annual R.O.T.C. "hop" --dance to you. That the men of Yale and Harvard are well versed in the "arts and sciences" of the social graces was well demonstrated by the demand for more dances...
...camp was Allen E. Puckett '39, who scored 89.1% qualifying expert pistol shot. He was followed by four who qualified as Sharpshooters, Frank E. Southard '39 Law, score 84.7 % R. G. Jones '39 score 84.4%; Donald L. Daughters '39 score 83.7% and P. R. Wentworth '39, score 81.3%. Those who qualified as Marksmen, with scores ranging from 60% to 78% were Cleveland Amory '39; Fred S. Armstrong Jr. '39; I. Tucker Burr III '39; William L. Calfee '39; Francis J. Donovan '39; Frank r. Harnden '39; Nathaniel Heard '40; Robert J. Hoye '39; Howard Johnson '39; Bernard Kalman '39; Oscar...
...Artillery firing was brought to a close by a demonstration of the latest model 75 mm gun, with which Battery B, 7th F.A., the parent battery of the R.O.T.C., was equipped. During the firing period all men had an opportunity to fire at least three problems. Allen E. Puckett '39 was awarded the Edward Holyoke Osgood Medal for that Harvard R.O.T.C. student who excelled in Conduct of Fire. He was closely pressed by Frank E. Southard, F. S. White, E. R. Clarke and I. Tucker Burr...