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...last week clambered into a shell and rowed two miles up the Charles River at Harvard's commencement. Of the nine, all 70 or over but still spry, four were in Who's Who. They were Stroke Joseph Lee. now a social worker. Russell Sturgis Codman, hotelman and Harvard trustee, Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore doctor, Charles Pelham Curtis, Winchester, Mass., lawyer. The other five, prosperous respectable citizens who probably deserve to be in Who's Who also, were William Hussey Page, Manhattan lawyer and onetime president of the New York Athletic Club; Horace Binney, retired surgeon...
...recognized as oldtime office-boys and members with him of a church literary society. Office-Boy Freeman became an accountant for the railroad, dabbled in politics. At the age of 22 he was on the speakers' committee in the Benjamin Harrison-Levi P. Morton campaign. The late Bishop Henry Codman Potter of New York heard him speak one night. Summoning young Freeman to his office he said: "You have the gift of tongues, and you are either going to be a menace to society through that gift or you can become a great power for good. I earnestly suggest that...
...Codman Jr. '19, former Harvard oarsman, and one-time New England champion, was the winner of the senior singles race yesterday in the final day of the first annual fall rowing regatta. Codman, the winner of the American Henley at Philadelphia in 1929 and runner-up in the nationals last year, was about a length ahead of W. I. Stuart '28, at the finish. The five other boats came in a considerable distance behind the two leaders, F. C. Bell '33 placing third...
Because of weather conditions the water on the basin was too rough for boating and the race had to be rowed on the three-quarter mile upstream course. The stiff breeze with which the oarsmen had to contend was responsible for the comparatively slow time of the winner. Codman was rowing for the Union Boat Club of Boston and Stuart for the Cambridge Boat Club...
...Last week he announced that, like any modern, well-run body of opinion, the Crusaders will henceforth have a paid pro fessional director who will devote all his time and talents to the organization's work. New National Executive Commander of the Crusaders is Col. Julian Codman, Bos ton lawyer, longtime foe of Prohibition, an early director in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Col. Codman. 60, is a Harvardman. He served with the A. E. F. in the Quarter masters Department. In 1924-26 he was attached to the Judge Advocate General's Department. He has twice...