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...various London guilds-the Skinners, the Dyers, the Innholders, the Tallow Chandlers. In 1673 Charles II founded the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, to teach navigation and thus supply the Navy with apprentice officers. Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, sponsored it and Sir Isaac Newton wrote its syllabus. Peter the Great of Russia borrowed two of its students ("King's boys" or "Mathemats") to help him found a similar school in Moscow...
...same dinner Steve Leland of West Newton and Winthrop House was elected captain of next year's 150's. Leland, who rowed at Noble and Greenough, has hold the number seven seat in this year's varsity...
...depict the 1941 siege of Tobruk, where the Nazi blitzkrieg was stopped for the first time. Against this factual background, the scenarists have set a fictional plot about a tough British captain (Richard Burton) with a soft spot in his heart for his alcoholic old ex-schoolteacher (Robert Newton), a private with the Australian 9th Division...
Other weekend baseball events pit the Crimson J.V. against Newton Jr. College at Newton, and the powerful freshman team against Holy Cross...
Bachelder, who received a knife wound running from above his right eye through his ear and into the back of his neck, spent Friday night at Cambridge City Hospital, after being refused admittance to Stillman Infirmary. He was moved to his home in Newton Highlands Saturday...