Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House That Thayer Built. Few West Pointers have made so dramatic an entrance or so notable an exit as First Captain Robert Woods. But most of what happened to Woody in the three-year interim was what happens to every cadet. He was rolled, ground, grooved and calibered into shape by the same basic regimen that West Point has followed for more than a century. This process for molding military youth was set up by one of the neglected great men of U.S. education, a graduate of West Point as well as of Dartmouth. His name was Sylvanus Thayer...
...West Point, too, the Cadets were unbeatable. The all-conquering Army swimmers, who snapped Yale's great 66-meet winning streak last month, sank the Navy, 44-to-31. Ray Thayer, an exponent of power rather than form, swam on the winning relay, took the 50-yd. sprint and cracked the Academy pool record with...
Died. Sigourney Thayer, 47, comical, acidulous son of the late Headmaster William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School, World War I aviator, later Vultee Aircraft executive, husband of Socialites Emily Davies Vanderbilt and Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell; in an automobile accident ; in Allentown...
...been unearthed from among the new Freshman class. Among those slated for possible action this term are Walter Coulson, a promising first baseman from Lawrence Academy, who is expected to start in Saturday's game, J. M. Dunn, a third baseman from Andover, Weston Durant, a catcher from Thayer Academy, Shaw Livermore, a pitcher, from Mercersburg Academy, and Bob Goodale, an outfielder...
...Houses by Stanton M. Strawson, Jr. '47 in Dunster, Don E. Marks '46 in Lowell, and Milton J. Brawer '47 in Adams. The collection of over 35 quarts of blood from Harvard men was the result of two months' soliciting in all the Houses. Navy blood was collected at Thayer Hall Dispensary...