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...deer's head has recently been hung just outside the Eliot House dining hall by R. B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and House Master...
...where he has made his home ever since. He joined the Elks, made lodge speeches and friends, drifted into politics. In 1894 he was first elected to the House of Representatives where with one interruption he served for a dozen years. He learned political strategy under Speaker Joseph Gurney (''Uncle Joe'') Cannon who made him a trusted henchman. In 1908 he stepped out of the House to be beaten for the Indiana governorship by Thomas Riley Marshall, later Democratic vice president. Politically jobless, he reverted to law, became a lobbyist for the American Manufacturers Association...
...Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, will be the chairman of the debate between the Republican and the Democratic Clubs tonight in the dining room of Eliot House at 8 o'clock. The question is "Resolved, That Hoover should be reelected...
...Clyburn twins' museum, whose chief exhibit was an emu's egg mistaken for a thunderbolt; Mr. Mellor, the eccentric Pre-Raphaelite painter at No. 5; the Tom-Sawyerish pranks of the Gurney children, whose fearsome governess wore a respirator over her mouth when she ventured outdoors, all lend variety to Author Mackenzie's reminiscences. The touching story of Vagabond William Cobb who lived & died in the attic of empty No. 25, and the final setting straight of his Aunt Adelaide's crippled Victorian romance are matters of a longer fibre that bind the scattered memories into...
George Lyman Kittredge '32, Gurney Professor of English Literature, yesterday received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from Oxford University in England. On Tuesday, May 10, he was honored at a luncheon given by the Pilgrim Society of London, which was presided over by the Duke of Connaught...