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Samuel H. Ordway Jr. '21, chairman of the trustees, said last night that he was "happy and gratified that the College has made this offer. I have no doubt that the lot will be acceptable...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Advocate Will Construct New South St. Building | 1/11/1956 | See Source »

...Ordway said the trustees approached the University last spring concerning possibilities for obtaining land. At that time the administration said it could make no definite agreement until the Advocate raised the money...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Advocate Will Construct New South St. Building | 1/11/1956 | See Source »

About the only thing Little Codfish Cabot at Harvard has to recommend it is its delightful title. This little inanity, written by Samuel H. Ordway, Jr., '21 and illustrated by F. Wendworth Saunders '24, could not possibly have enjoyed too much acclaim when it appeared in 1924. It follows the education of a prep-schooled boy at Harvard, his introduction to various customs at Harvard, and his impeccable Bostonian reaction to all situations. The cartoons are poor, and what comment there is can be summarized as inconsequental...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

...enjoyed the feeling that he was in direct touch with 'big, important people.' " In his book, Witness, Chambers recalled White in this passage: "There is Harry Dexter White. I see him sauntering down Connecticut Avenue at night, a slight, furtive figure. I am loitering near the Ordway Theater, where he has insisted (probably out of laziness) that I meet him for the third time in a row. Yet he is nervous at the contact, and idles along, constantly peeping behind him, too conspicuously watchful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: One Man's Greed | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Leon Siegel (D) defeated Charles Rankin, Leo Wolkow (D) defeated Court Worthington, Sid Shapiro (D) defeated Sam Ordway, Tom Sobol (D) defeated Bill Williamson, and Mike Licciardello (D) won by default. Nick Krauth (W) defeated Fred Paulson, and John Trumbell (W) won by default...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Bow to Dudley in Tennis | 5/11/1951 | See Source »

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