Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover outing last weekend: to Cotoctin Furnace, Md., to catch eight more trout. Five tents now stand on the Cotoctin campsite. Electricity and telephones are installed...
Like most Andover boys, he went to Yale. A suit-pressing business which he organized paid all his expenses, infuriated old-established rivals, left him a large surplus after his graduation (1913). One of his employes in the pressing business, a bright Italo-Amcrican boy of eight or nine, so delighted Undergraduate Hamilton (then about 18) that he legally adopted him, later sent him through Andover and Yale. This adopted son now has a son of his own, making Bachelor Hamilton a legal grandfather...
...with no banking prospects nor heiress to wed. A job got he in an architect's office, and many a book he thumbed. At 26 he was a practicing architect and main support of his family, sending through college four brothers and one sister. At office at eight, he often leaves at seven. During working hours, his coat is always off, his hair is always mussed. He is a member of six golf clubs. But he has never had a golf club in his hand...
President Hoover, in a telegram which he sent last week regretting that he could not be present to unveil a bust of President James Madison, called the Hall of Fame and its periodic unveiling ceremonies, "a noble inspiration to the young." Eight-year-old Betty Glenn Walker, a descendant of Madison's brother, substituted for President Hoover...
William Leland Thompson Jr. '32, of Troy, New York, has been elected captain of the Freshman crew and will lead the eight in its next and final encounter with Yale at New London June...