Word: groton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haley Sr. money had offered to pay the debt by helping Bob Haley through Harvard, then mistakenly sought to enlist other Harvard graduates in his generous enterprise -cleared Football Captain Haley of blame but made him no less subject to the rules. Last week, he regretfully resigned. Under a Groton graduate named Shaun Kelly, elected to replace him, his onetime teammates, smartly drilled by Dick Harlow, first non-graduate football coach in Harvard history, made short work of Springfield College...
Keppel, who lives in New York City, prepared at Groton. He was the first Red Book chairman to operate at a profit in a number of years. He was chairman of the Freshman Guide Committee which submitted a report to Dean Leighton last May criticizing various aspects of the first year...
...season, which is starting a week later than last year, will be rather crowded, and for that reason only two games outside the league have been scheduled. These games are Lowell House versus Milton Academy and Dunster House against Groton...
...many Groton graduates, like their friends from Milton, Andover, and St. Paul's, are unable at present to keep up with their more fortunate classmates who find that waiting in the Union gives them not only enough money for College expenses but for making good their pledges. Apparently, the financial strain of club bills which average at least $30 a month, of liquor and amusement appropriations, and of gasoline and car expenses leave many of these men without even a stray dollar in their pockets...
...needless to comment on the unfairness of this situation. Why should a man, just because he went to Groton, shoulder the responsibility for the drastic economies which confront the Council on every front this year? He should not have to spend sleepless nights because his failure to give has deprived some fellow of an education or prevented some much needed charity. No, the Rector had better file his application today...