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...first game of the season, the 1935 second baseball team will meet Went worth Institute this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in Boston. The game will serve as an opportunity for assistant Dean Henry Chauncey '28, who coaches the squad, to select a first team from the many players who are competing for each position...
...Cooperstown, N. Y. is the Beasley School which teaches boys to concentrate by the very means which the Noise Abatement Commission deplores. Beasley School was founded in 1928 by Chauncey Haven Beasley, onetime Latin teacher at Pomfret, inventor of Golfits Latine which makes a parlor game of declensions and conjugations. Headmaster Beasley, aware that most businessmen must work amid distracting noises, devised two years ago a Concentration Course which has now become his school's chief feature. Every day, first thing in the morning, his 31 students (aged 8 to 16) meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder...
Died. Chancellor John ("Chauncey") Olcott, 71, Irish tenor; after eleven years of pernicious anemia; in Monte Carlo. Introduced as a singer by the late R. M. Hooley, he played his first dramatic role as a Spanish youth in Pepita or the Girl with the Glass Eyes at the old Union Square Theatre in Manhattan. After singing in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pinafore and Mikado, he studied in London, emerged the professional Irishman of "Mother Machree," "My Wild Irish Rose," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "A Little Bit of Heaven...
Modest President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck, as usual, did not attend last week's opening, let the credit go to Manager Chauncey T. Ray. Manager Ray started work on State Street at the age of eleven, as cash boy for Charles Gossards' (now Carson Pirie Scott), later went to Marshall Field. He left in 1930 to become an assistant manager of a Sears, Roebuck store. Last week, at 47, he was back on State Street as manager of a store that may become biggest...
...decorated in holly and laurel, with fires going in the large fireplaces. A. C. Hanford, dean of the College, Delmar Leighton '19, dean of the freshmen, Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University, Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, with W. J. Bender '27 and Henry Chauncey '27, 1935 assistant deans, will all be guests of the first year class and have dinner at the Union...