Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverand Sherard Buildings '80, of Groton, teacher of Haughton. In his schoolboy days and his lifelong friend, opened the simple dedicatory exercises with a prayer. Following him came Dean Briggs. Then the memorial was presented to the University by J.W. Farley '99, Chairman of the Haughton Memorial at Committee, and formally accepted by C.F. Adams '88, Treasurer of the University, who said in part, "We are glad to have this memory kept fresh in the heads and hearts of the generations of Harvard boys who will use this field in the hope that it will inspire them also to give...
...person who invariably orders chicken salad, who is smazed when his best friend answers the steward in French, and who is alone in a crowd will find all his problems solved for the year 1928 in this Almanack...
Eighty or thereabouts years ago when I was a Yale undergraduate (that was before the days of Harkness, when Chapel Street was but a winding lane, and gin was in its infancy (I dearly loved a good snipe hunt. With a small group of friends (the Heffeifinger boys, and, now and then, Fannie Ward) I would while away the long Connecticut afternoons, ever intent on the elusive snipe. Garbed in sundry clothing and an umbrella slickers were then a practically unknown territory, we would roam through the bills, little dreaming what the morrow held in store. Which reminds me (just...
...long since gone but nevertheless I am very grateful for the antidote. As a matter of fact the bottle is here on the table as I write and occasionally I take a sip, in order that I may establish a sort of personal relation with my generous unknown friend. Whoever you are and wherever you are I should like to see you if ever you come to New Haven; you must come over for dinner. I do not care for stimulants as a rule--indeed I rarely touch them--but this sheems to have hit the spot. My friends tell...
...that one must look for an exposition of Charles Eliot Norton, the man. Enough has been said, however, to make clear to the younger generation his general character and aims. On that basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker in the interests of the University--his sketch of the life of Francis James Child. Concerning Professor Child Mr. Norton wrote these words, and they fit not only the man whom they describe but the man who penned them. "To those...