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...what at first looked to be a full dress assault and battery case with intent to rob, Patrick F. Bowditch, of Lowell House, and a friend, Dirck Roosevelt, were haled into a Cambridge district court yesterday...
Harvard men pinned included Butler in the heavyweight class, Govind Karki in the 175-pound class, Lauria in the 165-pound class, Ting in the 155-pound class, Fay in the 146-pound class, Trimble in the 136-pound class, King in the 128-pound class, and Bowditch in the 121-pound class...
...effort to boost its membership the Hasty Pudding Officers Club will hold another informal open house at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, Mrs. Helen L. Bowditch hostess and manager of the recently opened center, announced yesterday...
...great work of Bowditch's later years was his translation of Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace's Mécanique céleste, which he began during the War of 1812. The American Academy offered to bring it out by subscription; Bowditch refused. He did not want anybody to be able to say: "I patronized Bowditch by buying his book, which I cannot read." Instead, at his wife's urging, he spent a third of his life's savings ($12,000) to publish four volumes himself. A fifth volume was untranslated when Bowditch died...
Author Berry believes that Bowditch was "not particularly democratic," charges him with having a "quarterdeck attitude toward the common people." Sailors, with less literary standards of democracy, apparently felt otherwise. "As the word of [Bowditch's] death spread from harbor to harbor around the world the flags of ships were lowered to half mast...