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...preserve the memory of those Harvard organizations which may dissolve during the war, Clifford K. Shipton, custodian of the University Archives, has requested that officers of all clubs and societies deposit their records in his office on the top floor of Widener...
...article in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, Clifford K. Shipton '26, Custodian of the Harvard University Archives, gives an amusing account of the chain of Saltonstalls that have periodically lent their name to the directory of Students of Harvard. "Our Harvard Saltonstalls," he calls them. In fact at the World's Columbian Exposition one of the Harvard exhibits was the Saltonstall family tree...
About Richard II Mr. Shipton says: "Even domestic life then had its adventures, for tradition says that a discontented slave girl once placed gunpowder beneath the massive family bed and blew it and the Colonel through the roof. When the bed came to rest, right side up and some distance from the house, the Colonel popped out, remarking, 'I know who did that...
...chain does not stop where Mr. Shipton has left off, however, for the pages of the directory are now graced with the name of Leverett IV, a member of the Class of 1939. His family have set a precedent which he will have to maintain...
...Saltonstalls," Mr. Shipton concludes, "have never sought great wealth. . . . Content with a comfortable fortune, they saw no virtue in leisure, but labored at the tasks they chose...