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Jesse learned to kill in the Civil War. The son of a steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that...
...fall of 1865 Jesse drifted back to Clay County, Mo. with other guerrillas "who refused to believe that the war was over." There was scarcely a Saturday night that Jesse's gang didn't shoot up Liberty, the county-seat. There Jesse was arrested for the first & only time in his life-by a Republican sheriff who let him and his gang go with a mild warning "to mind their Ps and Qs." The James gang sneered. In February 1866 they thundered back into Liberty and held up a bank...
Bender's line work was sorely missed after he left the game. His loss, plus the fact that Houston and Davis were only playing one way, opened the first spots where the Crimson's weakness finally showed...
Defensively, Harvard could never really stop Princeton, but Valpey's men slowed each of the first three touchdown drives long enough to use up a respectable amount of time. But when the defensive collapse came, it was sudden and spectacular...
...forum, the first in the Adams House fall series, will be moderated by Wassily Leontief, professor of Economics. Professor John Finch of Dartmouth and Dr. Florence R. Kluckhon, lecturer in Sociology here, will speak...