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...founded the school 120 years ago,† modeled its architecture after their memories of Yale. For many years the little "Yale of the West" also had a Yaleman for headmaster. But last week when it hired a new scholastic head, Western Reserve Academy signed on a Harvardman...
Western Reserve's 28th headmaster, John W. Hallowell, 37, has a lot in common with a fellow Harvardman, Phillips Exeter's new Principal William G. Saltonstall, 40 (TIME, June 17). Both are tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and lean, with rugged Yankee faces. At Harvard they won crew and hockey letters, went on to teach at prep schools (Hallowell at Groton, Saltonstall at Exeter). Both served in the Pacific, ended up as lieutenant commanders...
...Perk," as he is informally known, is a Harvard-man's Harvardman in the best traditions of the gentlemen and scholar. Though he has not had a foot in a stirrup in twenty years, he speaks reminiscently of his experiences on the range. The impression given by his large library of the works of distinguished Englishmen is betrayed by an equestrian symbol-a pair of tarnished spurs which hang in proud retirement above the fireplace. His nautical blood put him on Harvard's first one hundred and fifty pound crew which he captained in his senior year. But the crew...
...first time since before the war, the traditional riot call of "Rinehart!"* sounded again through the Harvard Yard. Since every Harvardman is either a little liberal or else a little conservative, ostensibly the trouble had something to do with politics. The Liberal Union was marching through the Yard, protesting Winston Churchill's "warmongering." Partisans of the Conservative League decided to break up the parade, and-Rinehart! The riotous reason was really spring, and like a maenadic overtone sounded the shrill, feminine piping of Radcliffe girls, now virtually coeds at Harvard...
...Named Harvardman Edwin A. Locke Jr., 35, onetime adviser on Chinese economics, to be a special presidential assistant on Government reorganization...