Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the University of Oregon (Eugene, Ore.) celebrated its semicentennial. There were the usual speeches and felicitations, all very pleasant; but, far more interesting was an interview some newsgatherer obtained with one William Scott, aged 70, a housepainter, of Creswell, Ore. It had been Mr. Scott who, when the University's registration book was first opened in 1876, had had his name written on the topmost line. The second and third students to register were his sister Mathilda, his brother "Ron." His grandfather, Capt. Levi Scott was the university's first janitor. His father, William...
...Painter Scott told stories about the institution's first "undergraduate body" of 40 students; how there was no room for them at the college to study, but only to recite; how they went to their classrooms, which were lit by tallow dips, bearing pieces of wood picked up on the way to put in the stoves; how they went "downtown" to beer parlors of an evening, until the University president (of a staff of three), John W. Johnson,* caught them and made a "fine talk" in class...
Among the veterans returning to the squad this year are Captain W. P. Ellison '27, F. W. Adams '28, E. C. Clark '27, J. P. Chase '28, C. D. Coady '27, C. C. Cross '27, Joseph Morrill '28, Nathaniel Hamlen '27, R. S. Scott '27, and Isadore Zarakov '27. The third successive undefeated Freshman team will add its recruits to the list of candidates for this year's hockey...
...Harvard Cooperative Society announced yesterday the election of officers for 1926-27. H. S. Thampson '99 was reelected President and Professor A. W. Scott '09 of the Law School, vice-president of the Society...
...Kellogg, Mrs. B. L. Kilgour, Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. H. G. Meadows, Mrs. R. B. Merriman, Mrs. J. W. Miller, Mrs. Francis Parkman, Mrs. C. A. Pratt, Mrs. Elliott Putnam, Mrs. R. R. Robinson, Mrs. D. M. Sayles, Mrs. F. B. Sayre, Mrs. H. D. Scott, Mrs. Richard Stoney, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. Moses Williams...