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Though it is legend that one freshman came to Radcliffe because the annex had a lacrosse team and other college did not, Barbara Bancroft '51 is currently the only student who chose the 'Cliffe only after a painstaking rink-to-rink survey of Boston's ice skating facilities...
...next year the Hon. George Bancroft, donor of the fellowship, who was otherwise famed both as the man who ordered the invasion of Mexico and as a historian of some note, completed his donation to bring the sum of the fund to more than...
...even a year afterwards that one Allan Walton Gould, a man "always somewhat inclined to books," reaped the first rewards of Bancroft's generosity. Gould studied for a year in Leipzig under the fellowship and returned to become a tutor at Harvard and finally a Unitarian Minister. His class's 30th anniversary book was somewhat scandalized by the report that he had once held a post in a church "reputed to be radical...
...credentials, found that he also represented 36 Negro weeklies (there is no gallery for weekly newspapers). Lautier protested in vain that more than half his income came from the daily; the committee ruled that his "chief attention" was the weeklies. Lautier hoped the Senators would agree with Griffing Bancroft of the Chicago Sun, who cast the only dissenting vote and called his fellow correspondents' decision "nothing short of outrageous...
...long conference with Krug delayed the President's departure aboard the yacht Williamsburg for a weekend visit to the Naval Academy. When he reached Annapolis after an all-night cruise, he looked chipper and relaxed. Next day he made an informal little speech before lunch in Bancroft Hall. There was a subdued laugh from the future admirals when the President said: "The future is in your hands. . . . Those of us now running the Government are coming to the end of their term." Then, as a raw wind swept off the river, Army veteran Harry Truman watched the Navy lose...