Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Christian Association, the following men were elected officers for the coming year: president, Marion Adolphus Cheek Jr. '26 of Brookline; vice-president, Sterling Dow '25 of Kennebunk, Me.; secretary, William Henry Gratwick Jr. '25 of Linwood, N. Y.; treasurer, Donald LeBosquet Sweeney '26 of Newton Highland. The retiring officers read their reports and the new board will go into office on April...
...South African War, Sir Auckland was a lieutenant in the third Highland Light Infantry Regiment; he rejoined the Army quite early in the Great War, was badly gassed. In 1916 he was made Director of Recruiting; during the next four years he held a number of posts and in 1920 was appointed British Ambassador...
...fleets are beginning to be a regular feature of those harbors in the United States which have a dense enough hinterland to make bootlegging and liquor running highly lucrative. Scranton, Philadelphia, and Trenton are supplied by the fleet which lies off Highland, New Jersey. New York is fed from the sea by a fleet anchored off Sandy Hook and in the neighboring waters. San Francisco gets its Mexican, Canadian, and Japanese liquors from the armada plying outside the Golden Gate. Boston and the lesser New England ports are infested with smugglers from the Bahamas and the West Indies...
...citizens of Highland are divided in their attitude toward the new industry. Fishermen, chandlers, shipbuilders, and truckman of the town look upon the bootleg trade as a gift from heaven, but the more respectable residents resent the presence of flashily dressed, hard-faced strangers who frequent the restaurants and put through their liquor deals under the very noses of the local police...
...been awarded the Associated Harvard Clubs Scholarship: Rush Floyd Crouse 3L., of Sparts, N. C., the Harvard Law Club of New York Scholarship; Robert Cressey Rounds 1l., of Gorham, Me., who last year was a member of the Bowdoin College faculty, the Cadwalader Scholarship; Lowell Turrentine of Highland, N. Y., a Princeton graduate, the Langdell Scholarship; John Thomas Noonan '19 3L., of Great Barrington, the Fay Scholarship; Melville Fuller Weston of Cambridge, who prepared at Dartmouth, the Fisher Scholarship; Wallace Winthrop Brown 1L., of Cleveland, Ohio, who graduated from the University of Illinois '21, the Bobb Scholarship; and Wellington Shelton...