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...School Faculty. Here are likenesses of Asahel Stearns, A.B. 1797, University Professor of Law 1817-29; Joseph Story, A.B. 1798, Dane Professor of Law 1829-45, Harvard Overseer, and for twenty years a member of the Corporation; Joel Parker, Royall Professor of Law 1847-68; Simon Greenleaf, Royall Professor of Law 1833-46; Theophilus Parsons, A.B. 1815, Dane Professor of Law 1848-70; and Emory Washburn, University Professor of Law 1856-62, Bussey Professor of Law 1862-76. On the east wall is a portrait of Nathan Dane, founder of the Dane professorship and for whom Dane Hall, now demolished...
...last ten years there has never been a year when Ralph Greenleaf was not, for a while anyway, the world's pocket billiard champion. Last week, under various shaded pyramids of white light in Detroit, he tried to get his title back. Frank Taberski, defending champion, was below form, and it was Erwin Rudolph who played Greenleaf in the finals...
...crowds at billiard tournaments are never very big, but Rudolph and Greenleaf had another audience which followed their contest in newspapers and discussed it in doorways-the enormous and tremendously expert audience of U. S. pool players. Pocket billiards is another name for continuous pool. You play it on a sixpocket table with 15 numbered balls and a cue ball. You must name the ball you want to pocket and the pocket you are shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly...
...Jellison, a member of the Boston harriers, was the individual winner of the race, covering the distance in the good time of 23 min., 50 sec., 11 seconds later, his teammate, B. B. Sheridan, scampered across the final line in third position. A. H. Elliott placed twelfth. R. Greenleaf fifteenth, and G. H. Bradford seventeenth, making the team's total of 48 points...
Died. William Sloane Kennedy, 78, of West Yarmouth, Mass., author (The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Italy in Chains), in West Yarmouth; by drowning while swimming...