Word: hamilton
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Curiously enough, there was a time when lotteries and raffles in the U.S. were considered not only moral but indispensable to the nation's growth. In colonial days, Jefferson, Franklin and Hamilton all favored lotteries as governmental revenue raisers. George Washington was an enthusiastic ticket buyer even when he was President. The Continental Congress raised money to pay soldiers through a lottery. Hard-pressed property owners often put their holdings on the market through lotteries, and Jefferson himself, in debt near the end of his life, appealed to the Virginia legislature for permission to run a lottery. Princeton, Columbia...
MARHALL WM. CONLEY McMaster University Hamilton...
Firsts seem to be a specialty of Hamilton Holmes, 21. He set off a furor in 1961 as one of the first two Negroes to enter the desegregated University of Georgia as a transfer student from Morehouse (Negro) College in Atlanta. Once the initial excitement was over, he burrowed into his books, became the first Negro to win acceptance at Atlanta's Emory University Medical School, which he enters next fall. And last week Holmes gained further distinction as the University of Georgia's first Negro member of Phi Beta Kappa. His grades to date...
...countless students as Princeton University's Dean of the Chapel from 1928 to 1947, an outspoken preacher-teacher who was known to one and all as "Pop" and was tirelessly devoted to his chosen duty, beginning at 65 a series of "retirements," first from Princeton, then from Hamilton College, Lawrenceville School, and finally in 1961 from Phillips Exeter Academy; of a stroke; in Exeter...
...John Young at five. Junior Martyn Greenacre, a veteran of last year's varsity, has moved into bow, and last week's stroke Dick Masland is at six. The rest of the boat includes Captain Rob Russell it three, Jim MacMahon at four, Mike McKenzie at seven, and Chris Hamilton...