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Pink-cheeked, spectacled Dirck Roosevelt, 13, son of Kermit Roosevelt and grandson of the late U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt, parked against a fence in Groton, Mass., one warm afternoon last week and brooded. He gazed in distaste at his books, at Groton School. The reflection that his father was adventuring in the South Seas added nothing to his contentment. The bright sunshine increased his gloom. He fished out his wallet, thoughtfully counted $8. He turned to his spectacled, 13-year-old companion, Henry Wyse Distler, son of a Baltimore engineer. "Come on," he said abruptly. Without more ado they...
Goodhue, of Boston and Eliot House, prepared at Groton and has been assistant manager of his Freshman and Varsity football teams, editor of the Freshman Red Book, editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, and this year's author of the Undergraduate Week in the Alumni Bulletin...
Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., of New York and Holworthy Hall, from Groton; Chairman of the Union Committee, Phillips Brooks House Freshman Committee, Squash team, Red Book Board, Debating team...
...been Richard Whitney who had led the Stock Exchange's long and losing fight against Government regula-ions-wrongly, according to some, gallantly according to all. Yet the curt Stock Exchange announcement declared last week that there was "evidence" that this Groton-bred Harvard man's company had been guilty of "conduct apparently contrary to just and equitable principles of trade." The Street promptly cracked in its usual savage humor that "Snow White had become a Dwarf...
Five times president of the New York Stock Exchange and once czar of Wall Street, Richard Whitney entered Harvard at the age of twenty, having graduated from Groton, where he rowed and played football. His first year he rowed number four on the Freshman crew, and in 1910, as a Sophomore, he made the varsity crew, rowing...