Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of his white skin. Though he learned eagerly the lore of the Shawnees, Salathiel felt himself a square peg in a round hole. Fortunately Big Turtle, tiring of incessant bickering with white enemies, decided to turn over his white captives to the commander of the British stockade, Fort Pitt. With the captives went Salathiel...
...route to Fort Pitt, Salathiel met a white girl and, after passing the day alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...
...undergraduate squad will boast of Varsity stars, Dean Hennessey and George Dillon, as well as Jayvee members, Bob Bunten, Don Gesson, and Henry Moulton. The idea of NROTC basketball squads was conceived by Chief Technician Frank Patrick, former All American football player at Pitt and head of Navy Sci athletics, and heartily approved by Captain G. W. Barker, head of both the ROTC...
Herbert disclaims any intention of being "narrowly and offensively British." But the Great Bear (which Americans "flippantly but sensibly call the Dipper") becomes Great Britain; its stars: Shakespeare, Caxton, Pitt, Johnson, Wren, Reynolds and Handel. Herbert gives Cassiopeia to the U.S. Says he: "I shall graciously permit the Americans to have some say . . . but I have put down Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Grant and Roosevelt (he does not say which), and a smaller one for Paul Jones...
...direct charge of this training is Chief Specialist Frank Patrick, former All-American fullback at Pitt. A regular in 1935, 1936, and 1937, Patrick hit the high point in his collegiate career by scoring two of the three touchdowns in Pittsburg's 21 to 0 victory over Washington in the '37 Rose Bowl game...