Word: clubman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Wanamaker Jr.. 45, sportsman, clubman, member of Pershing's War-time staff, grandson of the late Store Founder John Wanamaker; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...only ones which you can make what you want. While they may not be the happiest ones, they belong to you in a sense no others will. Try and make something out of them. If your ambition is to become a social success and become a final clubman, do it well. If your ambition is to become a scholar, do it well. If your ambition is to become an athlete, do it well. Or if your ambition is to become a literary light, do it well. While G. K. Chesterton may have said. "What's worth doing, is worth doing...
...elected Dean of Arts & Sciences last year (TIME, Oct. 12, 1931); Edward Allen Whitney, Associate Professor & Tutor in History and Literature; Francis Parkman of the famed Harvard family; Missouri-born Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department; Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 37, a distinguished clubman but a stutterer; Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams; Law Professor Francis Bowes Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Harvard Consultant-on-Careers Augustus Lowell Putnam (nephew); Biologist Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, politically ousted ex-president of the University of Michigan; Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian...
Toastmaster and organizer of the banquet was William Fellowes Morgan (Columbia, 1880), president of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Patrician, handsome and ruddy at 71, he is rich (warehouses, refrigerating), High Church Episcopalian (president of the Church Pension Fund), a famed after-dinner speaker and clubman. Toastmaster Morgan, member of the Columbia Society of the Early 80's, was Columbia's second alumni trustee...
...week that the Globe's publicity might do harm to young Professor Murdock. It might make Harvard change its mind. Also, even if Professor Murdock is elected dean, he will have potent rivals for the presidency. Among those spoken of are: Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 36, clubman, sportsman, member of a distinguished Harvard family (but he stutters a bit, a disadvantage in a Harvard president); Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (he probably would not accept); Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of Harvard Law School, personable son-in-law of the late Woodrow Wilson; Cancer Fighter Clarence...