Word: eastham
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...School--during the year 1921-22. Robert Cutler '16, of Brookline, Chairman; James L. Beebe, Fairmont '17, of Wichita, Kansas; George A. Brownell '19, of New York City; Edgar G. Crossman, Yale '17, of Manchester, N. H.; Robert R. Duncan Johns Hopkins '18, of Cockeysville, Md.; James S. Eastham, Brown '19, of Methuen; John O. Melveny, Univ. of California '18, of Los Angeles. California, and Kenneth F. Simpson, Yale '17, of New York City. These men are all selected from the third year class...
...because of a vow by the discoverer of it that he would name the place with the name of the first fish he caught off its coasts. It's rather lucky for the inhabitants, by the way, that he didn't catch an eel." The first town settled was Eastham, and the first inhabitants came from the Plymouth settlement. But it is Mr. Lincoln's theory, based on deduction, that the settlers came by sea. For we are given to understand that our Pilgrim Fathers were men of commonsense and piety, and according to Mr. Lincoln, no one of commonsense...