Word: manns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrote a Mercersburg Academy graduate : "I, . . . along with many fellow alumni, resent the fact that you omitted the name of Mercersburg and the mention of her headmaster, Dr. William Mann Irvine, from an article which ends with this sentence : 'These are the schools which during the last quarter-century have achieved some national repute.' You entirely ignore Mercersburg. She's recognized as one of the five greatest- Andover, Exeter, Lawrenceville and The Hill being the other four. She is more democratic than any other school of which you made mention - perhaps that is the reason...
...William Mann Irvine, graduate of Exeter and of Princeton, has guided the destinies of Mercersburg Academy for 31 years. While a youthful Professor of Social Science at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., he was offered the headmastership shortly after his 27th birthday. He moved to Mercersburg, Pa., found there a few acres of weeds and one old building, his "school." Today his personality and vision are reflected in a large (550 enrolment), firmly-founded institution with a reputation for vigor, discipline (stiff collars at classes), scholarship, a thoroughgoing democratic spirit...
...hits and a sacrifice gave Yale a one-run lead in the first, which Harvard wiped out-in the fourth by scoring three on an error, a single by Donaldson, and another by Mann which drove in both runners. The Crimson had the tying run on third in the ninth but failed to score...
...Cushing deBecker r.f. c.f. Moran Duchin c. c. Walker Booth p. p. Burnell HARVARD SECONDS YALE SECONDS Rice 3b. l.f. Faust Amaden c.f. 3b. Lackey Field 1b. r.f. Suisman Maher c. c.f. Giblin Keene s.s. 1b. Trepel Chase or Pratt l.f. 3b. Kaikee Donaldson r.f. s.s. Jenkins Mann or Gardner 3b. c. Lovejoy Puffer p. p. Coxe...
...Field 1h. 4 2 1 11 1 1 Maher c. 5 0 3 6 4 0 Amsden c.f. 4 0 2 0 0 0 Cotter l.f. 5 0 0 0 0 0 Samuels r.f. 3 0 0 1 0 1 Gardner r.f. 1 0 0 0 0 0 Mann 3b. 4 1 1 0 1 2 Puffer p. 3 1 1 0 3 0 Total 36 5 10 26 17 5 Dean Academy a.b. r. b.h. p.o. a. e. Tolbatt c.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 Hannaford 3b. 4 1 1 2 2 1 Hickey...