Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After two years of Oberlin, World War I took Thornton into a coast-defense unit ("I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal"). But by that time he was a Yaleman after all. Thornton wrote for the Lit, joined the Elizabethan Club, quoted Goethe with Sophomore Robert Hutchins. Thornton's room became a salon, where he would read his plays aloud or hold forth on the gloomy beauties of George Gissing. Professor William Lyon Phelps exclaimed: "I believe he is a genius." Mr. Wilder demurred: "Oh, tut-tut-tut, Billy, you're puffing...
...quickly. Next morning a Dakota (DC-3) of the South African air force took off for the Mozambique Channel, with Dr. Smith fretting in the cabin. It made a landing on the small French island of Dzaoudzi, more than 1,500 miles away. There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship. He knelt on the deck and wept...
...astronomers long ago cut the earth down to size, proved it to be only a minor planet revolving around the sun. The sun, on closer inspection, turned out to be only a middle-rank star, like several million others. But the "home" galaxy-the Milky Way-continued to seem twice as big as any other galaxy: it was something that earthlings could be proud...
...managing editor under which several of us ran was the mighty Roy Bukley '02, in later life reduced to the rank of a mere United States Senator. Our group included Franklin D. Roosevelt who was our first president and who then displayed his great literary prowess. Frank lived on the college "gold coast" but even then was inclined towards politics and steered the Crime behind causes such as better fire protection in the yard dormitories, where we had then to rely on old rope fire escapes...
James Albert Frye was appointed Adjutant General of the United States Militia by Governor Guild, and retired in 1907 with the rank of Major General. He is referred to in our 50th class report as the wit of our CRIMSON Board, delighting particularly at festive meetings, and raising a favorite question from month to month with the remark "Well, how about another annual dinner." I can remember his song, "The Same Old Game," the words I think original with...