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Lowell House assistant superintendent Edward F. Chamberlain will succeed James C. Yule as superintendent of Kirkland, Deacon master Mason Hammond '25 announced yesterday...
Yule, who has supervised Kirkland maintenance since the House opened in 1930, will retire July 1. He will start orienting Chamberlain into Kirkland House routine next week...
...became famed as a scientific busybody. Most of his experiments in those days dealt with naval cannon (recoil and the velocity of missiles). After the Revolution, Sir Benjamin went to work for the Elector of Bavaria. In short order, he became Minister of War, Minister of Police, Major General, Chamberlain of the Court and State Councilor. In his spare time, he invented a laborsaving kitchen range and organized a workhouse for Munich's beggars. Honored with the title of count and required to choose a county seat, he picked Rumford, the town where he first struck it rich...
Edward Francis Chamberlain, the Assistant Superintendent at Lowell House, whose taste runs to rep ties and white bucks, is a man of two temperaments. To the crowd of Lowell men who gather at almost any hour in the superintendent's office to hear Eddie, he is an inexhaustible, rapid fire narrator of undergraduate wickedness, and a belligerent upholder of the Boston Post. But when the modern Boston whirl has been pushed aside, as it often is during his long afternoon talks with Professor Kellcher, Harvard's Irish expert, Eddie is in lower gear; his speech is deliberate, his gestures wider...
Certainly no House man regrets his coming. Eddie says he can tell how long a man has been in the House by whether he's called "Mr. Chamberlain," "Hey Eddie," or something more familiar, if less exact. His popularity bobs up in the form of long bull sessions with the House men, coupled with Eddie's own brand of fatherly advice to their dates when they sign in. "If you need any help," Eddie informed one lady, "just whistle 32 times." "It takes 20 minutes to sign my girl in when Eddie's there," said a helpless escort...