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Because he had been born with a superior quickness and accuracy of muscular response, he seemed for a while unbeatable. In 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, he held the title. In 1894 a scorching Irishman named Goodbody beat the speedy Hovey, the rare Hobart, and Larned the Nonpareil, but when he met Wrenn he met his finish. In 1897 a strapping Englishman named Eaves (whose name, people said, was really Heaves), crossed the sea and beat the pride of the States, but Wrenn made him drop games like so many...
...donned a Scout uniform, motored to Rosslyn, Va., was presented by Miss Juliette Low with a tenderfoot** pin and in turn awarded six "letters of merit" to, Washington women for service to the movement, four merit badges to as many Scouts and a silver cup to Mrs. J. P. Hovey, captain of a troop which won an intertroop contest...
Among the surviving nine who will return to Cambridge tomorrow are Edward C. Johnson, merchant and philanthropist, until recently the head of C. F. Hovey & Co.; and Selwyn A. Bowman, former member of Congress and still an active practitioner of law in Boston. The others are Professor James A. Towle of Bryn Mawr: Frederick W. Bradlee: Edward Carter: D. T. S. Leland, Dr. Samuer G. Webber; John T. Morse, the class secretary: and Charles A. Nelson...
...Hills, New York; George Wallace Foster of West Roxbury; Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham; Columbus O'Donnell Iselin of New York City; George Beere Moynahan of Mattapan; Perry Rogers Pease of Hempstead, Long Island, New York; Harold Irving Pratt of New York City; Kenneth Morse Rogers of Dorchester; Hovey Edward Slayton of Manchester, New Hampshire; Donald Spencer of Cambridge; Donald LeBosquet Sweeney of Newton Highlands; Albert Tilt Jr. of New York City; Charles Lee Todd Jr. of South Lincoln; and Richard Trimble Jr. of New York City...
...Hills, New York; George Wallace Foster of West Roxbury; Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham; Columbus O'Donnell Iselin of New York City; George Beere Moynahan of Mattapan; Perry Rogers Pease of Hempstead, Long Island, New York; Harold Irving Pratt of New York City; Kenneth Morse Rogers of Dorchester; Hovey Edward Slayton of Manchester, New Hampshire; Donald Spencer of Cambridge; Donald LeBosquet Sweeney of Newton Highlands; Albert Tilt Jr. of New York City; Charles Lee Todd Jr. of South Lincoln; and Richard Trimble Jr. of New York City...