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Haines considers his first boat "better than average," although only three men had ever rowed before coming to Harvard. Stroke Pete Bullard rowed for Middle-sex, seven-man Dick Lincoln rowed at Exeter, and six-man Bill Wetmore was on the St. Mark's crew. Horatio Burns rows five, Andy Leighton four, Charlie Humpstone three, John Lincoln two, and Bill Glenn bow. Morrill Ordesky...
Carl Weinrich, Director of Music for the Princeton University Chapel and teacher of organ at Columbia University, will be the Horatio Appleton Lamb Visiting Lecturer in Music for 1950-51, Provost Paul H. Buck announced last night...
Life With Father. The indomitability had cropped out in him early, though not in the sense approved by Horatio Alger. He was the third child (in a family of five boys, three girls) of a Swiss-born construction contractor named William Rickenbacher.* Father Rickenbacher was a big, black-haired man with a violent temper and a deep belief in the cultural influences of a razor strop. Eddie, on the other hand, was driven by an unconquerable urge to make up his own rules and see that everybody else played by them. "I was just ornery," he says...
...Horatio Alger, his rags-to-riches message in popular bloom, had died the year before. Stephen Crane, who had seen more of the rags than the riches and had written Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, was about to die at 28. Pessimism and doubt were not hard to find on Jan 1, 1900, but the world, and especially the U.S., sided with Alger. It looked forward to the 20th Century with a degree of confidence unequaled by any previous age and unregained since. Paced fast or slow, progress was sure, limitless, irreversible. Virtue walked with progress; they fed each...
...from Canada in the summer of 1777 in an attempt to isolate New England by occupying the Hudson Valley; his 5,000 British and German troops were badly mauled by Americans led by Benedict Arnold on Oct. 7; ten days later, surrounded by 20,000 revolutionary soldiers under General Horatio Gates, they laid down their arms...