Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CHAS. M. WOOD Executive Committee Washington and Lee University Lexington...
...other oriental languages. For this purpose he bequeathed 1,000 pounds sterling, the income from which was to defray the expenses of the professor. Hancock, who was the first native American to lay the foundation of a professorship in any literary institution in this country, was born in Lexington. Stephen Sewall '21 was the first professor under this endowment. The present incumbent is W. R. Arnold...
...Isaac Royall settled in Charlestown, of which town he was a Representative for nine years. Later, he became a Counsellor, and held that office until 1774. However, says Josiah Quincy '28, "his judgment was not in unison with the patriotic spirit of the times. After the battle of Lexington he sailed for England, where he remained until his death." His former popularity saved his estates from confiscation under the "conspirators act," but the Government took possession of his property under the fact for confiscating the estates of certain persons called absentees," and an agent was appointed for its care...
Officers of the band for the coming year are: Ambrose Francis Keeley '27, of Fall River, Director; Robert Thornton Smith '27, of Saco, Me,; President; Randolph Piper '27, of Lexington, Manager: Charles Philip Englehardt '28, Secretary; Samuel Ganz '28, Treasurer; and Louis Burton Benjamin '29, Librarian. Contrary to the practice of the Harvard University Band Club in previous years, members will be elected at the close of the football season instead of in the spring. The members of Band Club are chosen on the basis of their work during the past season...
...person of Lieut. C. T. Cuddihy, roared back, to win from the Army the Kansas City Rotary Club trophy, over a 120-mi. closed course in a Boeing FB-3, the new type of pursuit plane developed for use as a fighting ship flown from the plane-carriers Lexington and Saratoga (TIME, Aug. 9). The Liberty Bell Trophy race was an all-Army affair from first to last, for light bombing planes. Lieut. L. M. Wolfe of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio) dashed home first by a wide margin, 120 mi. at 123.71 m.p.h...