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Married. Charles Seymour Whitman, 64, onetime (1915-18) Governor of New York; and Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor, 40, relict of Attorney Edwin Prescott Grosvenor who was a cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan...
Perhaps the most unusual of these four gifts was the bequest of Winward Prescott '09, late assistant professor of English at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This consisted of 2,500 volumes of short stories that Professor Prescott had collected for his course on the short story at M.I.T...
High jump--Won by Donovan (E), 5 ft., 10 1-2 in.; second, P. C. Tiffany '36, 5 ft., 8 in.; third, R. C. Hall '36, Field (E), J. C. Prescott '36, tied...
When the Sea Witch was launched in 1846, she was the last word in sharp-bowed clipper design; wiseacres shook their heads, prophesied that any such ship would drive herself under in the first real blow. But old Tea Tycoon Prescott believed in her. He gave her to his crack master, Roger Murray, hoping for many a broken record. On shore a cold dandy, on his quarterdeck Roger was a genius. Though he took chances against all the rules, he had never lost a spar. With him shipped his brother Will as first mate; also his youngest brother Hugh, shanghaied...
High jump--Won by L. Scheffy '35 (1in.) second, H. R. Withington '35 (3in.); third, J. C. Prescott...