Word: potter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD RHODE ISLAND Mays, 2b. l.f., Smith Thacher, 3b. c.f., Potter Wood, s.s. c., Goff Devens or Ware, c.f. p., Martynick McCaffrey, l.f. s.s., Dobosynski Lupien, r.f. 1b., Hodgson Sheldon, c. 3b., Barnatowich Fincke, 1b. 2b., Bastolla Sprague or Devens, p. r.f., Greaves...
...pistol team of five Harvard men participated on Saturday afternoon in the national intercollegiate field artillery R.O.T.C. competition. Captain J. A. Booth '33 was high man with a score of 202, followed by A. B. Moorhouse '32, 182; Fred Lewis and Roger Potter...
...oldtime office-boys and members with him of a church literary society. Office-Boy Freeman became an accountant for the railroad, dabbled in politics. At the age of 22 he was on the speakers' committee in the Benjamin Harrison-Levi P. Morton campaign. The late Bishop Henry Codman Potter of New York heard him speak one night. Summoning young Freeman to his office he said: "You have the gift of tongues, and you are either going to be a menace to society through that gift or you can become a great power for good. I earnestly suggest that you dedicate...
...months later, James Freeman did so. Bishop Potter helped him read for Holy Orders, had him tutored, ordained him deacon in 1894, priest in 1895. Rector of a Yonkers church for 16 years, he was called to Minneapolis in 1910. When Rector Freeman was considered for the deanship of St. John the Divine or the presidency of St. Stephen's College, the elder J. P. Morgan told him: "You'll not be happy in a town of 300,000 inhabitants. New York is where you belong. You'll be packing your crockery within six months...
...wouldn't tax a corpse, would you?" asked Showman Brady, looking sorrowfully from ator. "Well, I tell you, the legitimate stage is a corpse just about ready for the potter's field." He estimated that 70% of U. S. theatres were under foreclosure. At this point Oklahoma's Gore started to interrupt, but Showman Brady checked him. "There's not one in your State, Senator." said he. "Shakespeare's a lost art in Oklahoma...