Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Currently, of the nine teams in the top half of the basketball standings, only Grays, Hollis, Holworthy, Thayer Middle, Thayer, and Wigglesworth West have enough points from the fall program to figure in predictions for the leader after the basketball points are tabulated...
Although placing only ninth in the fall point standings, Thayer North looms as a threat to the current leaders. With forward Ted Moskowitz scoring up to 30 points a game in the first half, Thayer lost only to Hollis in a double overtime playoff game. Like Grays, it has gotten off to a good start with two straight wins...
Curt Beebe of Hollis, N.H., and Thayer Hall, was recently elected captain of the freshman ski team. In the team's two meets, Beebe has won three events and placed high in the others. His best events are the cross country and downhill races...
Actually, Thayer (1849-1921) was a better painter than modern critics are likely to allow. Critic James Flexner, for example, dismisses Thayer as a "workman" who "worked out a delicate and bloodless version of femininity which, draped or even undraped, was more pleasing to refined purchasers than the hardy realism of Homer and Eakins...
...Thayer's Virgin does look wrapped in taffy, the composition is static and the whole atmosphere is fuzzed with sweetness. But the picture's virtues more than offset its defects. It is magnificently drawn, subtly radiant in color, and a straightforward expression of the artist's reverence for girlhood and love of children. It can speak, gently, to the heart. Such works as Thayer's have been unjustly eclipsed in a critical age that winces at any expression of pure and lofty sentiments. Luckily, laymen are not so biased...