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...long, rakish craft skimmed the wavelets of Indian Creek, Fla. one day last week, faster than a boat had ever traveled before, but a watch-tick too slow, officially, to break the world's record. The boat was Miss America IX; her pilot, Garfield ("Gar") Wood; her time, 96.20 nautical m. p. h. Because he had failed to exceed Kaye Don's time by a full 5 m. p. h. Gar Wood could not claim a record...
Among this year's dead 40 were Joseph I. Johnson, 13, of Lafayette, Ind., who shot himself in the abdomen because he could not "make" his grade school team. Another fatality was Coach Ray Pardue. 24, of Statesville, N. C. High School team, cuffed to death by Garfield Jennings, 20, vexed linesman of the Taylorsville, N C. High School, which was playing Statesville High. Almost all the other deaths followed bashings on the football field. Most discussed of the deaths from violence were those of Army's Richard Brinsley Sheridan (TIME, Nov. 2) and Fordham's Cornelius...
Present were three of President Garfield's children: Harry Augustus, president of Williams College; Abram, Cleveland architect; Mrs. Joseph Stanley-Brown. A Grand Old Man, always a useful adjunct to celebrations, was also on hand: venerated Lawyer Andrew Squire of Cleveland, student under President Garfield, who told how he alone of his class was too young (11) to serve in the Civil War when Lieut. Colonel Garfield was mustering a regiment. Two Hiram coeds, dressed in hoopskirts, helped plant an evergreen tree on the campus. "Taps" sounded as a flag was run up the flagstaff-the flag which covered...
...father, President Garfield of Williams said: "He was by nature a teacher. He loved to be with young people, to try out their minds. . . . My memory furnishes me with no record of dull moments. Occasionally our fractious group had to be temporarily broken up. the offending members being retired to the corners of the room, facing the angle...
Prior to the Garfield anniversary, alumni enthusiasm included, besides a plan to publish a lot of Garfieldiana, an idea that the college's name might be changed to Garfield College. But Hiram likes Hiram. Almost unanimously the Board of Trustees voted last fortnight to stay Hiram...