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...Class of 1934 *Richard Glover Ames 98 *Carl Albert Pescosolido 58 *Alfred Bowditch Hallowell 56 Guy Scull Hayes 55 Paul deBarsy deGive 52 Bradford Simmons 51 Chester Harding King 48 Richard Palmer Waters, Jr. 42 Andrew Eliot Ritchie, Jr. 40 George Huntington Damon 39 Henry Kohlsaat Wells 39 Henry Greenleaf Pearson, Jr. 31 Theodore Chase 30 Richard Fremont Estes 28 John Moore Morse 28 Atreus von Schrader 26 Elwood Kimball Salls 22 Total vote: 248 Votes cast out (unsigned): 16 *Elected
Architects Lewis Greenleaf Adams & Thurlow Merrill Prentice of the Briton Hadden Memorial had little ground to work on but they stretched that little far to house the "Oldest College Daily" (founded 1878). Plunked down where it belongs, on a corner central to Yale's ramified, citified campus, the building rises three neat stories in a Gothic style. Downstairs is a spacious heelers' room papered in old issues of the News, Running around the four walls of this room is a wide work-desk of oak, thick enough to withstand the initial-carving of generations of heelers. Downstairs also...
Tentatively included for the first time in the Methodist Hymnal, which will draw upon all faiths in its selections, are Poet John Greenleaf Whittier's "All Things Are Thine," and the hymn of St. Francis of Assisi which begins...
Unlike that of most prodigies. Ralph Greenleaf's skill has improved with years. At 32, he was playing for his eleventh championship last week. Greenleaf's dignity did not permit him to emulate his confreres who, before a match, changed their dinner coats for black silk playing jackets. He wore his evening clothes throughout the tournament, entranced spectators by the suave and cautious ritual with which he filed his cue-point, sandpapered it, chalked it, then powdered his sharp-fingered hands. Only once was Greenleaf ruffled. That was in his seventh match when he missed his favorite cube...
...beating that Ponzi received thereafter-125 to minus 14-was the most severe on record in the championship. Three nights later, when Frank Taberski lost to him, Greenleaf was assured of a tie. His closest match was against young George Kelly of Philadelphia, nephew of Playwright George Kelly who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. Greenleaf's victory -126 to 119-gave him the championship prize of $1,200, in addition to his salary of $6,000 for three weeks' play, and one-sixth of the gate receipts...