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...least pretentious store fronts in Harvard Square is that of "Billings and Stover, Apothecaries." Two simple panels, each supporting a wooden mixing jar and twin glasses of chemically colored water, are all that adorn the "show" windows. The fact is that the firm of Billings and Stover doesn't have to advertise or dress up in order to attract customers; it has been going strong ever since...
Founded by one A. S. Wiley for the avowed purpose of selling "legitimate drugs," the store passed in 1898 to the now renowned Elmer W. Billings and Charles A. Stover. Mr. Stover, longer lived of the two, remained active until 1929, when he turned the business over to its present owner, Mr. Jeremiah J. Mahoney...
...great many famous people have traded with Billings and Stover. Nearly all the big names in Harvard history for the past eighty-five years are recorded in the prescription books, of which there are 112. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had a prescription filed once for stomach trouble. All the Roosevelts, too, from the elder Kermit and Teddy on down to our contemporaries, have been regular customers. Mr. Mahoney speaks of Norman Prince, who was the first American to die with the Lafayette Escadrille. And Mr. Justice Frankfurter, though now in Washington, still keeps his account at Billings and Stover. Only...
Generations of schoolboys have held their breath at Owen Johnson's description of Yale's Tap Day in Stover at Yale (1911). In the eyes of a few incurable schoolboys, being tapped for Skull & Bones still ranks second only to being President of the U. S. Founded in 1832 by a group of disgruntled Phi Beta Kappa-rejects, Bones is the oldest and most sacred of Yale's six senior secret societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club, Book & Snake, Berzelius...
...Dink Stover protested (before he was tapped) that Tap Day was "ridiculous rigmarole." Twenty years later Richard Storrs Childs, '32 (now publisher of Modern Age Books), also denounced "the Elks in our midst," shortly afterward accepted election to Keys. In 1933 the entire junior class revolted, stayed stubbornly in their rooms on Tap Day. The societies pursued them to their rooms, had no trouble filling their quotas. Next year, Tap Day returned to the campus. This year the Political Union held an unprecedented public debate, resolved (3840-17) that "the influence of the senior societies...