Word: groton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college professors." Rugged, venerable, he has taught Latin at Colby for 63 years. Though retired as professor emeritus, he still conducts a senior Latin course. Unanimously, Colby alumni elected him last summer to the board of trustees. Less rich than Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell or Groton's late William Amory Gardner, who left Groton $500,000, Harvard $100,000, he is comfortably off. Married in 1892 to Mary Keely Boutelle of Waterville, he is vice president of Ticonic National Bank in which her family owned stock; he inherited property and securities at her death. Dr. Taylor...
...Some of his forbears: Benjamin Franklin. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Artist John La Farge (grandfather), Architect Christopher Grant La Farge (father). Manhattan-born (1901), Author La Farge is called "Ink" by his intimates, has spent most of his life at Saunderstown, R. I. For schooling he naturally went to Groton, inevitably to Harvard. There he became one of the leading literary figures of his class, spent his summers on university archeological expeditions to Arizona and Utah. Later he investigated Indians and temples in Guatemala and Mexico, wrote a book about it (Tribes and Temples) with Frans Ferdinand Blom. His first...
...accorded free access to the stacks for further study. It was understood among the attendants at the Library that he was pursuing his studies in preparation for further degrees. Williams has been instructor at various high and preparatory schools in New England, teaching for a time at Groton...
...that many were disposed of through a ring in Manhattan. Last year a turnstile was installed in the lobby; the losses decreased. Last fortnight a Cambridge bookseller reported that Mr. Williams, graduate of Boston University and Harvard (M. A., 1909), onetime principal of several Massachusetts high schools, teacher at Groton two years ago, had sold him two books which he thought came from the Library. To Mr. Williams' home went police and Library officials. They found many a scholarly volume?history, astrology, art, economics, biology?many, they said, with library marks, some partially deleted, some completely visible. He denied...
...only Harvard score was made by Capucci, playing at fullback, who intercepted a Groton lateral late in the third period, neatly side-stepped four of his opponents, and ran loose for 50 yards...