Word: putney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard ski team spent the vacation in Putney, Vermont, foregoing a chance at the Lyndonville meet in order to get much needed practice. They worked out under the direction of Coach Graham Taylor from December 27 to the end of the vacation...
...team also attended a five day skiing school headed by John Hogan, Putney School ski director. They prepared for their next meet, Saturday; the cross-country relays at Hanover...
Hart started out like a normal clean-cut American boy at Putney School in Vermont. Skiing was the big thing at Putney, and in his freshman year there he took it up. By his last year he had become proficient enough to be the student instructor in the sport...
...shower of bilge water disgorged by a ship and disgracefully dirtied their majestic plumage. The Vintners' swan master called for immediate action. Men in rowboats crowded the swans against the dock, fished them out one by one and hauled them away in vans to an R.S.P.C.A. clinic at Putney...
...Barbara," reported another teacher, "seems completely unaware of how disturbing an influence she is." The perturbation was caused largely among the male student body. One evening during Barbara's second year, Putney's headmistress discovered one of the boys kissing Barbara. She wrote to Norman suggesting that he would do well to send his daughter to another school. Andrebrook, an all-girl establishment as free of temptation as a French convent school, was recommended. Norman agreed, but his daughter persuaded him to let her have a run first in greener pastures...