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Hector Hamilton, 28, 5 ft. 5 in., is only recently an Orangeman. Born a Briton, he came to the U. S. 14 years ago determined to be an architect. He studied at New York's Cooper Union, joined the real estate firm of Frank H. Taylor & Son, Inc. More to keep his hand in than anything else, he entered the Soviet contest...
...while the future students of Harvard under the new organization are experiencing qualms of apprehension, joy, or revolt, the physical aspect of the University is undoubtedly bewildering those graduates of War days, the students of the era of John the Orangeman, and especially the inhabitants of Harvard when the mauve decade was in full swing and Harvard had a philosophy department. For even the massed chimneys of Dunster House, both the useful and the purely aesthetic ones, are only a few of the outward signs of change. The towering bulk of the new gymnasium opposing the Georgian structure of Lowell...
...reprinted Saturday, focuses attention on that curious and fascinating group of human beings known as "characters", and doubtless calls forth sighs from the older alumni, who deplore the passing of the men that once gave a spice of variety to Harvard life. Long years have passed since John the Orangeman and his donkey-cart trundled through Cambridge, and the original Poco visited dormitories with a load of old clothes over his arm. But the extinction of the individual does not mean the extinction of the species; and there are still a good many persons that are known to every Freshman...
...cockerels and pullets in his study, each named after a Professor's wife, is not entirely forgotten. Miss M.R. Jones, known as Mr. Jones, keeping shop in the Square with a sign in front of her cakes and confections: "Gentlemen will not, others must not, touch," and John the Orangeman are still historic figures. But there are more modern notables to take their places. Max Keezer, supersleuth, will not soon be forgotten, and the historic remark of Arthur Clement: "The patrol wagon was the only safe place in the Square," will go down through the years even as Mr. Jones...
There are a number of interesting pictures on exhibition as well as these books. Among these is a photograph of John the Orangeman sitting in his cart, and another is a reproduction in colour of an old engraving, called "A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England," showing Harvard and Massachusetts Halls...