Word: non-bostonian
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...greatest painter this country has yet produced. Still only 38, he is just now reaching the peak of his powers. There is scarcely an eminent person in Boston who has not sat for him, and his portrait of Silversmith Paul Revere is masterly. (He has also portrayed many non-Bostonian notables like Thomas Mifflin, who was recently made a brigadier general in the Continental Army.) But it was his fortune, or misfortune, to marry the daughter of Boston's most successful dealer in tea, Richard Clarke, and it was Clarke's tea that the Sons of Liberty threw...
...second line, bolstered by Dick Fischer, sole non-Bostonian from Buffalo, N.Y., seems equally productive as the first. Gordon Marlow, Dave Vietz, and Flscher rate the Yardling's hardest shots, and the latter two, in White's estimation, are the fastest skaters...
According to legend, a very proper New England lady, with an offspring ready for College, once fell into a conversation about education with a non-Bostonian acquaintance...
...than that of a man in charge of nine separate faculties, more than 3,000 teachers and scholars, and 10,155 students, not counting a swarm of Radcliffe girls ("We are not coeducational in theory," said former President Conant, "only in practice"). He is the first non-New Englander and the second non-Bostonian* ever to achieve his position. More remarkable, he was born and bred in Iowa (a place that Boston dowagers have allegedly been calling "Ohio"). His present position therefore represents quite a leap, for Harvard can still remember the days when the movements of its presidents...
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