Word: almoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...boys had heard nothing, even the assistant headmaster was amazed, when Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of famed Lawrenceville (N. J.) School, was reported by President John Nixon of the Board of Trustees, to have resigned. The Rev. Mr. Nixon assigned as cause Dr. Abbott's disapproval of a four-year-old policy of medical supervision. He also mentioned "a very flattering offer . . . made Dr. Abbott by another school with strong financial backing." Dr. Abbott only said: "I love this place. ... I dare say nothing. I have no money." There was an air of mystery...
...Sanders Theatre exercises: Oration, Edward Campbell Aswell '26; Poem, Charles Allen Smart '26; Ode, Almon Goodwin Cooke...
Richard Hinckley Field, of Phillips, Maine, was elected to the office of Treasurer; Charles Allen Smart of Forest Hills, N. Y., was elected to the office of Poet; Almon Goodwin Cooke of New York City was elected to the office of Odist; Edward Campbell Aswell of Nashville, Tenn., was elected to the office of Orator; Elmer Jared Bliss Jr. of Boston was elected to the office of Ivy Orator; Kenneth Morse Rogers of Dorchester was elected to the office of Chorister...
...Howe Stanley DeJongh Osborne John James Maher Willard Learoyd Tibbetts FOR TREASURER Richard Hinckley Field John Nickerson Watters FOR ORATOR Edward Campbell Aswell Chester Tevis Lane Edward John Metzdorf FOR IVY ORATOR Elmer Jared Bliss Jr. Walter Dumeaux Edmonds FOR POET Ralph Sargent Bailey Charles Allen Smart FOR ODIST Almon Goodwin Cooke Howard Nott Doughty FOR CHORISTER Harold Robertson Jones Kenneth Morse Rogers