Word: hermon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game after he had been a crack speedskater at Lake Placid, N. Y. Last year Wood earned more prize money than any other U. S. pro-$7,000. Second place for money winnings went to the young professional who was his opponent in last week's play-off-Hermon Densmore Shute, of the Llanerch Country Club, near Philadelphia. In three days of marvelously consistent golf over St. Andrews' angry bunkers and deceptive fairways, Shute had scored four par 733 in a row. Wood had caught up after a 77 on his first round, mainly because of a brilliant...
...commencement reunion 600 alumni voted to build a house for the principal. But they could not wait! They ran off to the barn, hauled out plows, climbed a high hill and began to dig at once . . . that was in 1912, at Mount Hermon School for Boys...
...whose house they could not wait to begin was Dr. Henry Franklin ("Doc") Cutler, who had been Mount Hermon's principal since 1890. Dr. Cutler was (and still is) reputedly able to call every one of his old boys by name. During the last fortnight many and many of the 14,000-odd alumni of the school were saddened, for as "Doc" returned from a tour of 35 Mount Hermon clubs between Northfield and Chicago it was announced that he would retire at 70 next month. Dr. Cutler will travel in Europe with his third wife who was a member...
...Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody founded 50 years ago for worthy youngsters who lacked advantages. Last year he finished raising $2,750,000 for the Northfield Schools, took his wife and three children off to Edinburgh, where he is now taking his second degree. When he returns to become Mount Hermon's principal he may sit on his front lawn, look across the Connecticut River at Northfield Seminary for girls, and like "Doc" Cutler reflect: "If the boys want to get over there, they've got to swim...
...Robert Elliott Speer, 59, retired from her 17-year presidency of the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. Wife of the famed Presbyterian leader, Mrs. Speer is mother of Elliott, who is to succeed Dr. Henry Franklin Cutler as principal of Mt. Hermon Boys' School next autumn. Her daughter Margaret teaches English at Peiping's Yenching University. Constance, married and a mother herself, has a doctor husband who studies psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Son William is a junior at Princeton. Tall, slim, white-haired...