Word: benjamin
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Marion Adolphus Cheek '26 of Berkeley, Cal., was yesterday elected president of the Phillips Brooks House Association Cabinet, succeeding Benjamin Franklin Rice Bassett '25, who has served in that capacity since last spring. John James Maher '26 of Bridgeport, Conn., was elected vice-president...
...there was a Captain Benjamin Leavitt, who was not content that this paltry 30 fathoms should be set as a lower limit to his activities. In 1922 he bought a ship, the Blakely, from the Shipping Board. He fitted her out for diving and salvaging, and laid in an equipment of patent diving suits of manganese bronze (which resists salt water corrosion), with flexible parts of interlocking copper tubing and ball bearing joints, with portable air equipment, carrying a four-hour supply of oxygen and a telephone...
...description of the Total Eclipse of the Sun around Boston on June 16, 1806, the Monthly Anthology bears the following report of a committee of Boston men, headed by Benjamin Bussey of the class of 1803, founder of the Bussey Institute at the University, who had been instructed to make observations on the behavior of the sun during the eclipse...
...committee which reported on the eclipse consisted of "a number of gentlemen in Boston, who had furnished themselves with proper instruments, and agreed to meet on the morning of the 16th at the house of Mr. Benjamin Bussey, in Summer Street, for the purpose of observing the eclipse...
...Basset '25 will act as Head Usher. H. P. Sharp '25 and P. W. Williams '25 will serve as Assistant Head Ushers. The other ushers will be W. W. Babson '27, H. L. Bair '25, R. M. Fuoss '26, J. P. Hubbard '26, F. P. Taft '26, R. N. Benjamin '25, D. C. Gates '26, Harding Newman '26, E. D. Pratt '27, J. O. Roseerans '27, Otis Shattuck '27, Richard Trimble '27, Rhodes Lockwood 1SA, R. T. Loring Jr. 1SA, J. L. Babson 3SLA, E. E. Babson 3SLA, R. E. Anderson 1GB, E. L. Bates 2GB, E. G. Bernis...