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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) came of a good New Jersey family. His father acquired some land on Lake Otsego, N. Y., started a settlement there which became Cooperstown. James Fenimore had all the advantages a squire's son could hope to have. He went to Yale at 13, was expelled for some "obscure"' cause. At 17 he shipped as a foremast hand in a Down Easter, next year got a commission in the Navy. But he saw no service in the War of 1812, for by then he had met and married Susan De Lancey...
...been granted leaves of absence. Charles Palache, professor of Mineralogy and curator of the Mineralogical Museum, will be absent for the first half of the year 1930-31, while M. A. McIver, assistant professor of Surgery who has been appointed chief surgeon of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital at Cooperstown, New York, and M. B. Hexter '24, instructor in Social Ethics, will be away during this present half-year. E. S. Larsen, Jr., professor of Petrography, will be absent on a sabbatical leave during the second half...
Some salve to Dutch sensibilities has been the ownership of the Press and News. For the Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...
...Sorlie, Governor of North Dakota, appointed a Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death last summer of Edwin F. Ladd. The man appointed is 33-year-old Gerald P. Nye, publisher of the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier of Cooperstown, N. D., and co-editor with his brother of the North Dakota Non-Partisan, official organ of the Non-Partisan League. Senator Frazier, the other Senator from North Dakota, exclaimed...
...will be interested to know that while at the Otesaga Hotel at Cooperstown, N. Y., last week-end I noticed two persons in the lobby reading TIME...