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...houseboat at Edgewater, N. J., entered school this term he proved himself a very bad boy. He chased his teacher about the room with a long, heavy stick until she jumped on a desk, screaming for help. He threw blackboard erasers and handfuls of chalk at teachers and pupils. One day he caught another pupil and banged his head on a concrete floor. Another time he chased frantic children with a rusty, 8-in. knife. He rubbed poison ivy on the faces of several pupils too weak to escape him, and then on his own face...
...scene was Buffalo, where he was born 52 years ago. Father Fosdick was a teacher destined to receive much local kudos as long-time high school principal and later Superintendent of Education. Son Harry was the best pupil in town. He won countless prizes, especially for oratory. Once he & friends removed the clapper from a Methodist Church bell and, baffled by the Presbyterian clapper, left it wrapped up in their clothes. But such a prank, except for indicating energy-voltage, was not typical of young Scholar-Orator Fosdick. who knew what he wanted to do and was well...
...series of water colors done by Jonathan Fisher, graduated in the class of 1792. These paintings, drawn during the period from 1794-98, deal with the familiar Yard buildings--Hollis, Harvard, and Massachusetts. A perspective view of Hollis "humbly presented to the governors of Harvard by their dutiful pupil Jonathan Fisher" in September 1794 is a feature of this series...
Married. Clarence Cook Little, 42-year-old director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, onetime (1922-25) president of the University of Maine, onetime (1925-29) president of the University of Michigan, director of the American League for Birth Control; and Beatrice W. Johnson, his pupil at Maine in 1922, his assistant in 1924, a women's adviser at Michigan when Dr. Little was its president; at Fredericton, New Brunswick. (Year ago, Dr. Little divorced his first wife...
...whims by his share ($30,000,000) of the monumental capital of his family, he turned to sport all the energy and brilliance of a fine executive intelligence. When he graduated from St. Mark's school he won the Founder's medal for being the best pupil. At Harvard he finished a four-year course in three years and was a member of the Porcellian Club and manager of the football team. During this period the nickname "Mike" was applied to him for some reason now forgotten. Later, his various directorates and the importance of his activities...