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...Waldo L. Dresser '40, who disappeared from his Dunster House room preceding the Christmas holidays, is still missing, it was learned last night and confirmed when the CRIMSON contacted his sister in Worcester by telephone. This is the fourth disappearance of a student in 13 months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Clue Discovered of Dresser, Missing From Room for Month | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

Shortly after he left Harvard, Dresser sent the only known correspondence since December 7, to his mother, Mrs. Frank L. Waldo, from New York City. Preceding his departure, Dresser handed his resignation to the University and withdrew $300 from the bank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Clue Discovered of Dresser, Missing From Room for Month | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

According to his sister, Dresser left in search of work. It was suggested that his ultimate destination was Georgia, where he hoped to secure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Clue Discovered of Dresser, Missing From Room for Month | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

Died. The Mackintosh of Mackintosh (Alfred Bonald Mackintosh), 87, since 1876 the 28th Chief of Clan Chattan; of a heart attack; at Moy Hall, Inverness, Scotland. A strict dresser, The Mackintosh once threatened to resign from the Kilt Society unless white ties with evening kilts were prohibited, black ties made compulsory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Flick Hoxton's boys have similarly eccentric habits. Sometimes they soak their felt hats, stretch them on baseball bats and traipse around the campus like pixies wearing hats two or three feet high. Each spring they raise squirrels in their dresser drawers. A common event at dinner is the passing of the "boss" (dessert) from unlucky to lucky wagerers. Sometimes boys will bet a whole year's boss on an election or whether a master's wife's baby will be a boy or girl. Once they smeared treacle (molasses) on the bell rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High School's looth | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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