Word: groton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reference in TIME, Feb. 23, p. 22, of the fame of Groton School and its chapel which suffered depredations last spring reminds me of a tradition at my alma mater, the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., sometime known as ''the Oxford of America...
...trying out for the backstop position are: Frank Crane '34, star center on the Freshman football team, who caught last year for Andover; J. M. Lockwood '34, captain of the Freshman football team, who headed the Gunnery School baseball team last year; J. W. Paul '34, star Groton backstop; and John Swarts '34, who played catcher two years for Milton Academy. A. S. Murphy '34, former Boston Latin School hurler, and J. V. Strong '34 of Rutgers Prep School are the only pitchers with outstanding records...
Famed is its decorative Gothic chapel, gift of the late Groton Teacher William Amory Gardner, whose will, filed last week in Cambridge, Mass., left Groton $500,000. Both became even more famed last spring when twice the chapel emitted, in the dead of night, not gentle, melodious, bell-music but a prodigious, strident jingling & jangling. There had been, Grotonians knew, depredations in the chapel. To catch the marauders (presumably schoolboys), wires and alarms had been rigged up. These went off, set the campus in an uproar, revealed naught but the fact that the alarm mechanism was faulty, had worked spontaneously...
Quietly, efficiently, an investigation was conducted by three Groton trustees (Harvard men, Boston businessmen) : Francis Lee Higginson, Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., James Lawrence. Last week it was revealed that the acts had been committed by two Groton graduates: Harvard Senior Edward K. Jenkins of Warrenton, Va., member of the Harvard polo team, and Daniel Merriman (dropped from Harvard in his junior year and awaiting re-entry), son of Harvard History Professor Roger Bigelow Merriman. They had gone to Groton after a football game. They were drunk...
...sorry. Sorry is not the word. Nothing can express it." Said Vandal Jenkins: "We were drunk at the time and as we became drunker we lost all sense of the seriousness of the things we were doing. I was not actuated by spite at Groton. . . . My record there was good...