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...John Edgar Evans '30, of Ebensburg, Penn., to the captaincy of the Freshman wrestling team by his teammates at a dinner after the Andover meet was announced last night. Evans is a star 135 pounder, capably taking his event in both of the season's meets. He prepared at Mercersburg Academy...
Busy though he was, the President prepared to go with Mrs. Coolidge to Mercersburg, Pa. It was there that his sons received their secondary schooling, at famed Mercersburg Academy. It was there that Mrs. Coolidge laid one of her many cornerstones, in June, 1924, for memorial chapel. The chapel has long since been finished. Calvin Coolidge Jr., Class of 1925, died of septic poisoning in Washington scarcely a month after his mother's visit at school. The dedicatory services were to be held on Headmaster William M. Irvine's 61st birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were...
There was about the new chapel, however, that which made it appropriate for a President as well as a lost boy's father to be present at its dedication. It was a memorial to the 1,700 Mercersburg graduates who served in the War, 55 of whom died. Designed by that most fashionable of academic architects, Ralph Adams Cram of Boston, it bore in its belfry a carillon of 43 bells, first in Pennsylvania, second largest in the U. S., presented by President H. B. Swoope of the Mercersburg Alumni Association, who had supplied British bell-makers an extraordinary...
...steps of the Senate, Dr. J. E. Middour, assistant headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, received from Joseph M. Speer, director of industrial education in Pittsburgh, 20 prize birdhouses made by 20 schoolboys in a contest conducted by the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. They will be placed in trees on the Mercersburg campus in memory of a onetime student?Calvin Coolidge Jr. ¶ In the south gardens of the White House, crocuses bloomed, hyacinths budded. ¶ James Coupal, M.D. and Major U. S. A., the President's personal physician, told the President he must cut out "handshaking" His patient obeyed. Swiftly the word...
...Tackle Roxbur Osborne, S. W., '26 21 173 5.10 End Newton H. S. Schmidt, E. L., '28 22 167 6. Back Roxbury Harvey, C. D., '2818 185 5.11 Center St. Mark's Kline, W. S., '27S 23 183 6.1 Back Roxbury Vieths, S. W., '27 21 160 5.8 Quarterback Mercersburg Wadsworth, J. J., '27 20 180 6.3 Back St. Mark's Cottle, E. P. Jr., '26 20 173 6.1 Back Andover Stearns, F. R., '27S 21 147 5.6 Quarterback Hill Barclay, G. M., '27S 21 165 5.8 Back Roxbury Harvey, J. S., '28 20 190 5.11 Guard St. Mark...