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Lewis Baker Warren entered Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1906, studied electrical engineering, got mediocre grades. Those who knew the tall, handsome lad with the blue eyes and dark hair thought him a great fellow, believed he had a good future. At the end of the year he made a Sheff club, York Hall, and a fraternity, Chi Phi. But because he was shy and sickly, he took part in no sports, remained unknown to most of his classmates. In 1908 Lewis Baker Warren was too ill to return to Yale. In 1912 he died...
...graduate of the Trinity Jesters, when motion picture performance were a roug unschooled let. His first picture was "War Brides." Under the acgis of David W. Gritlith, outmoded now, Barthelmess made long longstand outside of the theatres to see his Chinamth Broken Blossoms, with Lillian Gish, and his movie lad in Tellable David. In 1917 his Parent Leader had a pathos no story of a boxer has since...
...comfortable margin over the necessary three-fifths but not enough to take second place from a dark horse, Simon Newcomb who polled 78. That distinguished U. S. mathematical astronomer was born in Nova Scotia in 1835, ran away to the U. S. when he was 18. A pushing lad, he forced himself on the attention of Harvard scientists, soon overshadowed them. The last 30 years of his life were spent building up anew the theory and tables of the planetary system as well as writing such popular works as Astronomy for Everybody, The A B C of Finance...
...teacher of the conclave, really nothing more than a midwife to the student's thoughts was trying to pin a definition on said Natural Man. So Sairey Gamp, if we may make so bold, would ask each gentle youth in turn his opinion of the phenomenon in question. One lad said, "The Natural Man is a primeval creature without a soul." Another ventured, "The Natural Man is the superb laughty fellow who satisfies all his desires and passions, admitting no restraint or scruple...
...Irish immigrant mother only that she once carried him through a maze of horse cabs across Broadway. Because his Aunt Ellen thought, "He got the callin'," Pat Hayes was sent to a school, later a college, run by the Christian Brothers. There he made friends with a younger, livelier lad named George Mundelein. Indifferent at games, Hayes was a brilliant student whose businesslike manner got him the highest undergraduate honor, the Moderatorship of the Sacred Heart Society. He went on to St. Joseph's Seminary (Troy, N. Y.) and Catholic University in Washington. After ordination in 1892 his rise...