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...Doughty Ancestor Sirs...
...ancestor referred to is Captain Michael Cresap. No one has an ancestor in whom he takes more pride than I take in Captain Michael. He was an Indian fighter of rare courage. He took part in Dunmore's War in 1774 and drove the Indians from the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania back into Ohio. At the treaty of peace, Cresap was accused of having murdered the family of a friendly Indian named Logan. He paid no attention to the charges and soon was summoned to raise a company of riflemen for the Revolutionary War. His company marched...
...King Edward's Coronation next May Sir Bindon Blood in his new role will be within not many arm's lengths of the famed Crown Jewels which his ancestor Colonel Thomas Blood, son of a well-to-do Irish blacksmith, succeeded in stealing from the Tower of London in 1671. With the help of two accomplices Colonel Blood overpowered the Keeper of the Regalia, hid the crown under his cloak. One of his friends seized the sceptre while the other stuffed the orb into his breeches. Before they had gone far the thieves were captured. Blood refused...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD was named after his ancestor, the Baltimore attorney who wrote the words to the "Star Spangled Banner." F. Scott was born in St. Paul, Minn., 40 years ago. At Princeton he spent his first year writing a Triangle show, therefore flunked algebra, trig, and associated studies. The show was a hit. By tutoring during the summer, he successfully got back to Princeton the next year, and played a chorus girl in his show...
...futile attitude of antiquarianism or ancestor-worship that Harvard staked its claim to the educational limelight. The year brought challenges, many of which have been successfully met and conquered. Taking up the gage of increasing public indifference to education, the college has spread its tentacles throughout the country, justifying by national scholarships its position as a national institution. In the top brackets of learning, roving professorships promise well to bridge the gaps that modern specialization has brought in wide fields of scholastic endeavor. The symposia of scholars, gathered in September to disseminate their knowledge over the council board...