Word: slocum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shifty and absend-minded, Death is seldom timely in his remembrances. Last week, 23 years too late, he sought out William van Schaick, once Captain of the famed excursion boat General Slocum...
...15th of June in 1904 was a blue and shining day. There were a few white patches of froth against the china sky and a warm wind loitered in the air, as gay as a song. The people who boarded the General Slocum that morning ? mostly women who were bringing their small children on the annual outing of St. Mark's German Lutheran Church Sunday School ? felt the presence of this singular perfection. So did old Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion...
...summary: B. U. HARVARD Cohen, r.f. l.g., Harper, Stone, Line Zandan, O'Brien, l.f. r.g., Barbee, Hatch Cotter, c. c., Green, Barbee Bartlett, r.g. l.f., Baldwin, O'Connell Soutiere, l.g. r.f., Burns, Slocum...
Coach E. A. Wachter named the following men as the leading candidates to start in the opening contest: centers, M. M. Green '28 and J. W. Filoon '28. Forwards, S. C. Burns '30, J. W. Baldwin '29, A. W. Slocum '28 and D. J. O'Connell '29. Guards, J. N. Barbee '28, J. R. Harper '28, J. H. Lane '28, J. L. Combs ocC, R. L. Hatch '28 and W. R. Harper...
...will play on the Alpha Sigma Phi team: F. B. Cutts '28, D. S. Greer '29, G. H. Elsass '30, R. R. Ketchum '29, G. W. Smith '29, R. E. Durkee '29, J. L. Reid '29, F. J. Schwentker '28, A. A. Campbell '30, and A. W. Slocum '28. Substitutes are S. B. Roberts '29, and N. J. Beisel...