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Stacey also announced a tentative nucleus for the team including four freshmen and two sophomores. The eight favored candidates are Captain William Hinton '41, John Pierpont '39, Dick Whittemore '40, Gale Burton '41, Tom Winship '42, Al Eipper '42, Lindley Burton '42, and Bill Thurston...
...parental interest in Yale for a good long while. When at the beginning of the eighteenth century the Apleys and Aldens of New England felt that theologically Harvard was slipping into radical sloughs, they realized a perennial dream for a college in Calvinist Connecticut. The Rev. Pierpont, Class of 1681, obtained a charter, and the Rev. Pierson, Class of 1668, was chosen rector. In 1716 the "Collegiate School of Connecticut" was permanently established in New Haven, and at the suggestion of Cotton Mather, another Harvard man, it received the name of Elihu Yale, a Boston native who, like John Harvard...
...five trustees who run Cooper Union, Banker J. Pierpont Morgan was in England and American Telephone & Telegraph's President Walter S. Gifford was recovering from an appendectomy. But beaming upon the beginning of a new chapter in the history of their somewhat eccentric institution were Trustees Gano Dunn, a prosperous engineer, Elihu Root Jr. and Barklie Henry, a son-in-law of the late Socialite Harry Payne Whitney...
President John H. Pierpont 38 Vice-President James Mixter '40, Secretary-treasurer David Wilder '39, and Manager Howard Turner '40 announce trials for Freshmen beginning Monday and Tuesday. A new policy of choosing members for the Christmas trip on the basis of faithfulness and ability is to be inaugurated this year...
...urging Yardlings to display their musical skills for the clubs, President Pierpont stressed the concerts to be given at girls' college, informality, and "damn good fun" as valid reasons for new men to join...