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Only the dead knew Hollis. Only those tablets of names of men long since gone can lay claim to an understanding of Thomas Hollis' gift of almost two centuries' standing. For the hermitage of Hollis has passed from generation to generation of men down to today, when Hollis' cycle is...
In the beginning, Hollis was the meagre roof over the sombre heads of young men studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of early faith.
The cycle was begun with the Revolution. Hollis, on the request of General Washington, became a barracks for the hard-pressed regulars of the siege of Boston. The thirty-odd rooms were filled to the very rafters with men in coonskin who drilled in the Yard and attended sermons on...
So far, of the appointed committee, Becker, Philpot, and Critchlow have been re-elected. Other members of the committee were Richard A. Green, Frederick P. Murphy, and James R. Hollis, of Lowell House; Robert S. Gordon, Jr., of Adams; John C. Babcock, of Dunster; Robert E. Barry, of Dudley; and...
Stephan D. Becker will take care of the tickets and of obtaining a band, James R. Hollis is in charge of getting a dance hall and Richard A. Green is director of dance publicity.