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...Mann grew up in a puritanical Massachusetts family. Until he was 16, he never attended school more than eight or ten weeks of any year; he was 20 before he began to prepare for college. Nevertheless, he sailed through Brown with high honors, settled down to practice law in Dedham. Mass. This led him to the legislature, where he championed a bill to establish a state board of education. When the bill became law in 1837, he left politics and a profitable legal practice to take the $1,500-a-year job as secretary of the new board, aphorizing...
...duties. "I was framed!" he cried. When he was sentenced to serve four years at hard labor, he refused to resign as mayor and announced that he would keep right on running the city from his cell. But by this time nobody was listening. When he entered gloomy old Dedham jail last week, he was forbidden to have more than one visitor a week, denied permission to use a telephone, to see aides or sign city papers. The city council president was authorized to act as mayor in his stead. Having accomplished the all-but-impossible trick of exiling himself...
This encouraging record was compiled despite the distance of the Dedham Country, Club, where practice seasons and home matches are held. Since there was not even time to held a qualifying round for positions on the team, the top seven places and ratings of individuals had to be arbitrary choices from the ten men on the team...
...solution to the problem here, players feel, is for the College to establish a "loan-lease" arrangement with a closer course than Dedham-perhaps the Winchester Country Club would proves to be the solution to this problem...
Yale's championship golf team defeated the varsity 6 to 1 on a sloppy Dedham Country Club course Saturday afternoon...