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Glendinning's opponent tomorrow will be Eli Herbert Pickett, who has likewise pinned Toll to the mat in the current season. But last year Pickett, as a Freshman, lost to the Crimson's Chief Boston, and this year Strengold of Lehigh has taken his measure. It should be a close match but Pickett is not likely to be the man who will break, Glendinning's streak...
...became a judge in Tennessee, went to Congress for 22 years, where he was the leading Democratic expert on taxation in Woodrow Wilson's era, went to the Senate in time to be drafted for Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet. The nearest town to his birthplace in Pickett County, Tenn. was called Olympus...
...evening to see more gaiety with Mr. Pickett, the merchant, and his lively daughter, Rose. The college buildings lighted to proclaim the occasion and Cambridge filled with visitors. A marvel it was to see the throng a happy yet well-mannered. Austin, Jr., along again, and back with him to Hollis before the curfew telled at ten. Soon into bed, tired from merry-making, to dream dreams of purlian ancestors founding a "schoale or college...
...five speakers will be Bishop Francis McConnell, of New York City; the Reverend Michael Ahern, of Weston College; the Very Reverend Frederick Clifton Grant, Dean of Seabury-Western Divinity chool; Mr. Clarence E. Pickett, of Philadelphia, Secretary of the American Friends' Service Committee; and Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School...
...afternoon of July 3, 1863, with the echoes of the greatest cannonade in U. S. history just dying away among the Gettysburg hills, a burly bearded officer nodded his head, sent Pickett and some 7,000 men across the open fields to their hopeless assault. That charge, whose last thin waves lapped up through the Union centre, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The officer whose nod sent Pickett's column to its doom was General James Longstreet. Around his burly figure the battle-smoke of partisan controversy has hung thick ever since. Did Longstreet lose...