Word: dexter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large bequest will be received by the University as residuary legatee in the will of Mrs. Susan Greene Dexter, late of Boston, it was announced yesterday afternoon, when the will was filed in the Suffolk Probate office yesterday. Mr. Roland Gray '95 was appointed executor. No definite information has been released as to the probable amount of the bequest, but it was understood last night from reliable sources that the sum involved will in all likelihood reach the hundreds of thousands...
...income from the bequest will be devoted to supporting research work in bacteriology and to purchasing books for the library. Both of Mrs. Dexter's sons are graduates of the University; Gordon Dexter completing his course in 1887 and Samuel Dexter, now dead, graduating three years later...
...Marston, defending champion, survived until the semifinal. There Von Elm trampled him, 7 and 6, into his native sod. W. L. Hope, of Turnberry, Scotland, was longest-lived of the British entrants; but it was in the second round that Dexter Cummings, intercollegiate champion, did away with...
Married. Hyrum Dempsey, 67, father of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, champion pugilist, to one Lottie Dexter Blassingame, 26; in Farmington, Utah...
Than Alexa Stirling there is no finer mistress of golfing style in this country. Glenna, masculine of wrist, short of swing, comes next. Edith's game, while steady and dependable, is more loosely constructed than theirs, but she makes up the difference in temperament. Like brother Dexter, the intercollegiate champion, she is bursting with boyish energy and spirit. Her interests are not confined to golf alone...