Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Harvard Boots and Wings Club, an exclusive organization open only to veteran parachutists, was wending its way back to the Houses from Cronin's. Pausing in front of the Kirkland Master's residence, and apropos of nothing, the men began to render "Noel" with great spirit. Mason Hammond, the Master of Kirkland, came to his bedroom window and made it clear that the serenade was not welcome. Since that time, few months have passed without the evening concert being repeated, with a three-year turnover in the choir but always the same refrain...
...Hammond has come to accept these outbursts of song as inevitable, but he doesn't pretend to like them any better now than he did six years ago. In fact, Hammond seldom pretends about anything; he is straight-forward and direct, occasionally, as one Kirkland tutor suggests, to the point of near-indiscretion. But this frankness has won Hammond the respect of House members--you always know, they say, where you stand with The Mace...
Longtime friends of Hammond are quick to point out that, despite his directness and lack of pretense, he is a highly sophisticated man. A graduate of St. Mark's and Harvard '25, Hammond studied at Oxford for a year as a Rhodes Scholar. Except for three years of Air Force service in the '40's, Hammond has been at Harvard as professor of Greek and Latin. Then last year, he took a leave to travel to Italy at the invitation of the Academy of Rome...
Lowell House assistant superintendent Edward F. Chamberlain will succeed James C. Yule as superintendent of Kirkland, Deacon master Mason Hammond '25 announced yesterday...
Chamberlain, a former law school student and newspaper reporter, came to Lowell in 1947. Master Hammond called Chamberlain "a fine choice...