Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hannibal, Mo., a certain Mrs. Laura Fraser, 90, brown of face and wrinkled, rested her bones on a camp stool and listened to the talk of a college scholar.* He was talking about worthless Samuel Clemens, who raised hob in Hannibal 80 years ago, then took to the river...
...told how Tom Sawyer (who was really Clemens himself) had loved in the book a girl named Becky Thatcher, whose crinkling, twinkling jampot eyes had won him, whose enchanting ways had sung a song in his heart until he died. She was the flower of Missouri, said the college scholar; no girl had freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent the night with Tom Sawyer in a haunted cave. . . . The old lady chuckled and bobbed her bonnet; she rubbed one eye until it was clear and glanced sharply from side to side like...
Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. H. S. Glendenning, adopted daughter of famed capitalist Alfred I. du Pont; one Harold Sanford Glendenning, onetime Rhodes Scholar, son of a Norwalk, Conn., mail carrier; at Reno...
Died. Prince Victor Jerome Frederic Napoleon Bonaparte, 64, pretender to the throne of France, head of the House of Bonaparte, husband of Princess Clémentine of Belgium (daughter of the late King Leopold), scholar, student, connoisseur; at Brussels, Belgium, where his large private fortune enabled him to live in the retired comfort which he loved. He was known as one of the greatest European authorities on the U. S. Constitution. He is "succeeded" by his 12-year-old son, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, for whom Napoleon Clémentine will act as "regent" until he becomes...
...Young '07, Overseers of the College; Leverett Saltonstall '14, Treasurer of the Alumni Association; J. W. Hallowell '01, Treasurer of the Class of 1901, and Chairman of the Associated Harvard Clubs Committee on Athletics, and three undergraduates, W. I. Nichols '26, former President of the CRIMSON, and Rhodes Scholar for next year; F. V. Field '27, President of the CRIMSON and chairman of the Luncheon Committee; and H. S. Woodbridge '27, Undergraduate Chairman for Graduates...