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Like its Cake Box tobacco, over the years Leavitt and Peirce has retained a flavor all its own. Founded in 1884 to serve the Harvard man, it immediately attained primacy as an exclusive gathering place for upperclassmen. Around its pot-belly stove pipe smokers gathered to experiment with tobacco mixtures and help the proprietors perfect the Cake Box brand that brought them fame. Today, Leavitt's struggles to maintain its old intimate atmosphere. In a world of Shultes and Hav-a-Tampas, it still conceives of itself as a gentleman's smoke shop...
...Bill Leavitt's once-beaten Yardling crew, with Nick Platt at two in place of Fritz Schwarz, races an Eli eight which finished two and a half lengths ahead in the Eastern Sprints. The lanky 'Crimson yearlings have rowed well over the past week and have learned to handle rough water, their greatest difficulty at the Sprints...
...hope that you will see fit to retract this piece of yellow journalism and inform your readers of the true facts. Wm. Leavitt Sullivan...
Died. Frank Gimmons Leavitt, 62, bewhiskered, massive (5 ft. 11 in., 317 lbs.) "Man Mountain Dean" of U.S. wrestling; of a heart attack; in Norcross...
...varsity rowed against its junior varsity and combination crews for the first two miles and was ahead by five lengths. It competed against Bill Leavitt's fine freshman eight on the second two miles and opened up three lengths on the Yardlings...