Word: slab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ezekiel Cheever was the Boston Public Latin School's first master. A marble slab records that "Cotton Mather, a grateful pupil, ascribed to him all New England's learning." The third master was John Lovell, a Tory who on April 19, 1775 said owlishly to his pupils: "War's begun and school is done." Five signers of the Declaration of Independence went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late...
...Freshman batterymen have been working out for two weeks and the unusually high number of preparatory school stars indicates that the team will be strong on the mound and behind the plate. W. A. Lincoln '35, who starred on the slab for Exeter last year, and D. H. Gleason '35, showed great promise. More men are expected out as soon as the basketball seasons ends next Saturday. Last year 53 men responded to the first call...
...reached the present. What could the inmates of a house plan upon departing leave behind them? What footprints on the sands of time? Would a man dare to touch the smooth serenity of a Dunster fireplace? Could he scrawl on H. A. Q. '32 upon a new white slab. Alas, what chance has any man to leave behind him a little unremembered act, to write his name upon the panels of the future? Such are the penalties of sophistication, such the trials of luxury. Men will come, remain, and depart like the seal in Bering sea and no man will...
Over a stone slab in the lonely Matopos Hills of Rhodesia a big Hercules biplane will fly this week. In its flight the plane will accomplish, in unforeseen manner, the dream of Cecil John Rhodes. It was his ambition to see a British railway "from the Cape to Cairo." The railway is not yet finished. But the 18-passenger ship which crosses Rhodes's rock-hewn grave is the first of a weekly service of Imperial Airways connecting not only Cape & Cairo, but both of them with London and India...
...been practicing in & around Fair View, S. C. (pop. 45) for 51 years. He has been the sponsor of the Fair View Stock Show, county fair which had its 43rd session last October. Last: summer old Country Doctor Stewart caused the erection of a three-ton granite slab. Carved on one end is his name as donor, at the other end is a doctor's satchel. The front is "dedicated to the memory of the family physician." The back is "in memory of those [wives] who keep the home fires burning while the doctor is away on his mission...