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...others, in order: James Thomas Fields, William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Horace Elisha Scudder, Walter Hines Page, Bliss Perry, Ellery Sedgwick...
From their hill positions, Cebu's militia, commanded by genial, unflustered Colonel Irvine C. Scudder, whisked off to beach positions, pecked at the Jap. Somewhere the little M.P.s in their rumpled blue uniforms were fighting him too. But Cebu, only 20 miles wide, vulnerable in every spot to fire from the ships, never had a chance. The Jap was in the Visayan...
Women are allowed less leadership in the church than in almost any other field of U. S. activity. But notable at New Haven were the skill and spokesmanship of many an able Episcopal laywoman. Chief speech at the annual C. L. I. D. banquet was given by Vida Button Scudder, emeritus professor of English at Wellesley. Principal speaker at the opening session was Director Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation's Department of Industrial Studies. Said she: "What does Christianity require of Britain and the United States in their jointly assumed responsibility for world affairs today...
...Paul boys cannot mistake the characters pilloried in The Wrong Attitude. One, whom Chanler grew to dis like so ardently that he carried a piece of lead pipe to swing whenever he thought of him, was "Chappie"- St. Paul's famed Housemaster Willard "Chappie" Scudder. Chappie wore a bifocal pince-nez and a drooping, waxed mustache, dressed in the height of fashion, was thoroughly at home at lawn parties,"never let his slight paunch get to be more than a slight paunch," in every way exemplified "the right attitude...
...David Percy Morgan, chemical economist for Wall Street Investment Counselors Scudder, Stevens & Clark...