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Harvard big-wigs crowded the auditorium of the four-story building to hear addresses by President Conant, Dean Williams, Charles Francis Adams '88, president of the Board of Overseers, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Albert F. Bigelow '03, and Littauer himself, who just a year ago laid the cornerstone in a driving rain...
When Mahan's Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 appeared in 1890, British imperialists rated it an indispensable aid in wangling money from Parliament. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who was just beginning to swell, telegraphed to Journalist Poultney Bigelow: "I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book. ... It is on board all my ships...
...youngest child, was five, the State of Michigan decided that his home was no place for him, instead placed him in its Children's Institute at Ann Arbor. A year later Chris was released to Mrs. Harriet Atwood, wealthy farmer's widow, began attending the one-room Bigelow Rural School in Calhoun County, Michigan. He grew faster than most of his 15 schoolmates, got pretty good marks in everything but conduct. was soon demanding special privileges because his foster mother was president of the school board...
...hate war!", uttered by a titanic voice last night in the small courtyard of Lowell House brought dozens of Bellboys scurrying to listen. The curious were well rewarded for they heard successively the voices of Roger Bigelow Merriman (demanding quiet in a falsetto), J. J. Toomey, of the Cambridge City Council (telling how he stood on Larz Anderson Bridge and saw nothing but disappointed spectators returning from the Stadium) and Franklin Delane Roosevelt '04 (revealing that he hates...
...83rd birthday, bewhiskered old Poultney Bigelow, friend of the former Kaiser and inveterate iconoclast who is strong for war, dictatorship, beards, boating and hickory wagons for hauling wood and geese, gave out a written "interview," in which he asked all the questions and answered them himself. Some answers: "Stop thinking-take a holiday. . . . To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women...