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...Ferguson Locke '35, Langdon P. Marvin '41, Thomas Matters '43, Vern Miller '42, Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47, Endicott Peabody '42, Roswell B. Perkins '47, John C. Robbins, Jr. '42, Armand Schwab, Jr. '46, Saul Sherman '47, Philip M. Stern '47, Robert S. Sturgis ' 44, Richard H. Sullivan '41, and James Tobin...
...California. Purpose of the "chair": the explanation of humor to students. In the Atlantic appeared some letters Twain had written to his fiancée-and one to her father. Portrait of an anxious-to-please son-in-law-to-be: "I wrote you [the father] and Mrs. Langdon a letter . . . which will offend again, I fear-and yet, no harm was meant, no undue levity, no disrespect, no lack of reverence. The intent was blameless-and it is the intent...
...Practice these obstacles spelled "studies" and "recommendations" handed down with little eclat from an ivory tower visible to the eyes of a handful of men. With the possible exceptions of '26 and the three-year spurt capped by Langdon Marvin in 1940, few Councils made themselves known to their constituents...
...Michigan's coeds broke dates with their steadies to go to strictly nonalcoholic parties with some of the 414 West Point cadets who came with the team. In Madison, where more than once in the past the cops had had to cool off Wisconsin students with tear gas, Langdon Street was deserted by 11 p.m. There was a good reason for student restraint: more than half the boys were war veterans, older than prewar undergraduates...
...then went over the hill into Canada one night when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company "fur brigade" on a three-year trek by snowshoe and canoe, came back with sketches for a lifetime of painting...