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...Higginson boys' father was away. Francis Lee Higginson Jr. of Groton and Harvard, son of a famed Boston banking family, was serving in Key West, Fla. as a Lieut. Commander in the U.S. Navy. The mother who now lay so still and strange on the floor was the former Harriet Beecher Scoville of Hampton, Va., slim, vivacious, 31, a Back Bay Boston belle, great-granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher...
...annual competition among students entering Harvard, John M. Stephens of New York City and Groton School, and Theodore W. Wells of Melrose and Melrose High School, were awarded $100 George Emerson Lowell prizes in the classics. Stephens won the combined Greek and Latin translations and Wells, first in the Latin translation...
...Episcopal Church, just across Lafayette Square. Last week St. John's came to the East Room for the second time. A mixed choir sang an anthem ("Get not far from us, O God; cast us not away in time of stress). The President's old friend and Groton schoolmaster, the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, 86, led three other ministers in asking divine help for "Thy servant, Franklin". . . and to "save us from all false choices." The President's face was grave...
Before enlisting, the 52-year-old commandant, who makes his home in Boston, was a partner in the law firm of Gaston, Snow, Hunt, Rice, and Boyd, and held-several insurance executive posts. Born in Paris, Colonel Howard attended Groton School, came to Harvard, and while he was finishing Law School, the war broke out. As a member of the Harvard Regiment, he was commissioned a captain in the Infantry and sent to France in a machine-gun outfit. The Army issued him his discharge papers in February...
Next day Sumner Welles slipped out of Washington, turned up at Maine's swank Bar Harbor, where he held to diplomatically correct silence. If Sumner Welles was going into limbo, he would meet it with the good form a son of Groton and Harvard is expected to show...