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...christened Byron Patton Harrison but Pat has become his common-law name. At Louisiana University he earned his tuition as a mess hall waiter while pitching on the college baseball team. Later he taught school, studied law, served as a local district attorney and, at 29, was elected to the House. In 1918 he performed a political miracle by defeating notorious James Kimble Vardaman for the Senate and taking over the seat once occupied by Jefferson Davis. His first ten years in a Republican Senate were ones of irresponsible fun at the expense of the G. O. P. He teased...
JOSEPH A. BALL ROBERT H. PATTON J. STUART NEARY Long Beach, Calif...
...Reverend Francis L. Patton was elected president of Princeton. At that time the college was beginning to feel keenly the tug of new winds of liberal doctrine, and in the words of one who was a Freshman at the time. "It seemed a backward step to take a man with a white lawn tie, a black frock coat, side whiskers and the pallor of a medieval monk, to preside over a college devoted chiefly to the liberal arts." Patton had been a Presbyterian pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that...
...theology, Dr. Patton's contribution is scarcely likely to have any lasting value. He will be remembered on other grounds. He will be remembered on other grounds: first, as a president who, while he did not help along Princeton's intellectual growth to any marked degree, yet gave it a solid physical basis for future construction; secondly, as a very personable man, liked by almost everyone who knew him, whether as a friend or as a teacher...
Although plenty of guard material is at hand, these key positions have been the center of much debate all season. It is probable that Dan Fraad and Dutch Lear, two stalwarts from the 1935 Freshman team, will start for Brown, with Offen, Sayward, Patton, King, and Walker awaiting an opportunity to get into the game...