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...When Chanler Armstrong Chapman went to St. Paul's School in 1915, he had a family reputation to live down. His father (Literary Critic John Jay Chapman) had attended that haughty, Episcopalian institution during the reign of "the First Man of God"-the late, great Headmaster Henry Augustus Coit-and had been expelled because he went too far even for pious St. Paul's: in the midst of a cricket game he suddenly knelt and prayed in front of the wicket. Chanler never was expelled, but his conduct at St. Paul's was, if anything, worse than...
...Paul boys cannot mistake the characters pilloried in The Wrong Attitude. One, whom Chanler grew to dis like so ardently that he carried a piece of lead pipe to swing whenever he thought of him, was "Chappie"- St. Paul's famed Housemaster Willard "Chappie" Scudder. Chappie wore a bifocal pince-nez and a drooping, waxed mustache, dressed in the height of fashion, was thoroughly at home at lawn parties,"never let his slight paunch get to be more than a slight paunch," in every way exemplified "the right attitude...
...Chanler scandalized the school by major breaches of good form. He jumped into an icy pond (strictly forbidden) to win a $50 bet, got kicked out of the Concordian Literary Society for reciting nasty verses, bootlegged pistols to his schoolmates. His crowning escapade was a clandestine prize fight he staged to raise money to buy a motorcycle. Having primed his second to soak his gloves with water so that he could hit his opponent harder, Chanler went six rounds against a bigger boy before 150 delighted schoolmates (who paid $1 each), was knocked out in the seventh when his gloves...
...York the first hurdle that must be surmounted is the legality of the Board of Higher Education's action in hiring the firm of Root, Clark, Buckner and Ballantine as attorneys in place of Corporation Counsel William C. Chanler. The latter declined to appeal the case on the ground that "there was a substantial chance of losing...
...History Society are also ruled from the distaff side. The former, whose honorary chairman is Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, is a coalition of female societies. It is currently sponsoring discussion groups or "Marathon Round Tables." The New History Society, founded by Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, is an offshoot of the Bahai Religion. Mrs. Chanler and her peace-loving friends belong to the "Green International" wear green shirts when participating in peace demonstrations...