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Since Sambo IV (Harvard 1908) is suing Brother Sherman (Harvard 1912) for an accounting of their father's estate, it was questionable whether he would extend to Sherman the handsome offer inscribed in the 1908 classbook: "... I have a delightful wife, a delightful home and a delightful hideout, where I shall be glad to offer concealment to any of the Class of 1908 who desire to elude the police...
...benefit of the College at large, and for the especial pleasure of Eliot House, the Crimson herewith presents four extracts from the classbook showing the buds own conceptions of their classmates...
...luck has been to tackle situations at bad moments. He has always had a sentimental attachment for Union Pacific, from which by hard work, spectacular plunging and foresight his father hammered fame & fortune. He was a U. P. director while at Yale, sometimes appearing at meetings with a classbook under his arm. He spent vacations working on the road. His family's direct U. P. holdings are estimated at only 1.63% of the common stock but the Board sought him as chairman for several reasons. The position does not demand a professional railroadman. The chairman is often chosen...
...Welch Rabbits," a cartoon in a Yale classbook, depicted Dr. Welch as a magician. From a silk hat he was drawing rabbits, labeled with names of his students. Some of the rabbits' names: Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Simon Flexner, Franklin P. Mall, William Sydney Thayer, Lewellys Barker, Eugene Lindsay Opie, George Blumer, Walter Reed, James Carroll...