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Funeral services for Dr. William Greenough Thayer retired headmaster of St. Marks School, were held Saturday afternoon in Southboro following private rites at his home...
Funeral rites for Dr. William Greenough Thayer, retired headmaster of St. Marks School in Southbore, will be observed on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the school chapel. Henry Knox Sherrill '12, Bishop of Massachusetts, will conduct the services...
Hubbard who prepared at Noble and Greenough, was a member of last year's Red Book Committee, Sub-Chairman of the Smoker Committee, and a member of the Instrumental Clubs. Rogers prepared at Belmont High, where he managed the football team...
...high, 6 ft. wide and weighed about 20 tons. With enormous difficulty it was hoisted to a dray and hauled by swaying spans of oxen all the way to Leghorn. For enlarging his studio, hiring servants and replanting trees from Florence to Leghorn, Sculptor Greenough sent Congress a bill for $8,311.90. As no U. S. warship big enough to carry the work of art to the U. S. was handy, the Government chartered the merchantman Sea for $6,300. It took two weeks of fussing to load the huge statue on the Sea. The ship's captain charged...
Congress stood Sculptor Greenough's Washington as long as it could, then moved it out on the Capitol lawn and voted $5,000 more to put a shed over it. A few years later came another appropriation ($1,000) to take the shed down and put up a fence. The last artistic attack on the long-suffering taxpayers occurred in 1908 when, for $5,000 more, George Washington was bundled off to the obscure chapel of the Smithsonian Institution where Pressman Othmann discovered him last week...