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...sprightliest of these stories center around Grandfather Myron Adams, a patriarchally bearded forebear who was born in the late 18th century, helped build the Grand Erie Canal, and on occasion proved altogether willing to relate the bizarre hazards and furies of pre-Civil War life in the very language of those wonderful, distant days. His racy and ebullient yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country...
...MYRON RESNECK...
...general expansion will probably require three new tutors in the next three years, Professor Myron P. Gilmore, Chairman of the Committee on History and Literature, said. It was assumed that additional funds for the new tutors would be granted, but no definite decision has been reached...
...field of History and Literature will probably accept 15 more concentrators from the present freshmen class than were ever before admitted, Professor Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the Committee of History and Literature, revealed yesterday...
Joining Cohen on the faculty committee for the department of History and Science will be: Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion; Werner W. Jaeger, University. Professor; C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History; Frank M. Carpenter '26, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology; Phillippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics; and Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature...