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...College acquired its first chief executive. Smooth-spoken, well-dressed Nathaniel Eaton, at the age of 27, served for a brief term as Harvard's first President, treasurer, secretary, dean, bursar, professor, tutor, and steward. This amazing yersatility, however, extended even beyond the scholastic realin: thief, bigamist, forger, and con-man, Eaton was not only a scholar of note but a knave of high distinction...
...last week was 25-year-old Frank Ellis, serving three years for a little shooting scrape. He had ridden broncs at Cheyenne, Pendleton and the great Broadway roundup in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, had entered the Walls fortnight ago, just four days before the Rodeo opener. The con section cheered Newcomer Ellis wildly, but he was a mortified spectacle. The horse he drew calmly sidled over to a corner of the arena, refused to budge despite frantic gigging and ear cuffing...
...Senators, dizzied by mental arithmetic and preparing to take a final vote, strode Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Lawrence Sullivan. He told the Senators that the Treasury would have to disown their bill, suggested they start all over again. Sore, the Senators sent for Henry Morgenthau, who con firmed his assistant's verdict. Sorer, the Senators defiantly reported their version anyhow...
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...walking down the school street one day when the school's disciplinary master (known as "the Jeep") overtook him and quietly remarked: "Chanler, you have got just as many friends here as you ever had. You'd better come back next year." After 21 years, Chanler Chapman con cluded: "All that happened was that I learned a sense of proportion. ... I had the best time I ever had in any institution, committed more crimes and follies, led the forces of rebellion and disorder . . . and, because of a dozen dry words spoken haphazardly by one man, suffered...