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...salesman, who bought and sold papers he scarcely had time to get acquainted with; in Manhattan. Nearly a score of dailies from Brooklyn to Los Angeles passed through his hands, but he wound up with three: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Toledo Blade, and the Toledo Times. He gave Hotchkiss School its chapel, endowed a $100,000 foundation at Yale to study the relation of newspapers to public affairs...
Most tony U. S. prep schools-such as Phillips Andover and Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Kent-are Protestant, in spirit if not by direct church affiliation. Twenty-five years ago a Jesuit-educated young man named Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic boys. In the hills of western Connecticut, not far from Hotchkiss and Kent, he started Canterbury School, where well-to-do Catholic boys, without neglecting their religious training, might prepare for Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Williams with the same swank as their Protestant contemporaries. Last week this Roman Catholic Groton...
...Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman twice, with Molla Bjurstedt Mallory twice). She has won 240 cups-mostly at tennis, squash and horse-show jumping...
...made the institution what it is today but who for more than a third of a century has been known to Rensselaer men only as "The Builder." Rensselaer's alumni have long speculated about "The Builder's" identity. This month Rensselaer's busy President William Otis Hotchkiss at long last told them. Because he died last January (at 73), his family consented to let it be known that the man who gave Rensselaer five of its buildings and much of its $6,000,000 endowment was a Pittsburgh steelman named John Marshall ("Mar") Lockhart...
Most remarkable fact about John Lockhart was that he gave away most of his fortune (to Pittsburgh hospitals as well as to Rensselaer) anonymously. This month President Hotchkiss wrote to Rensselaer's 11,000 alumni: "It is with sadness that I report his death. . . . Without his gifts the Institute would still be the small school ... of 30 years...