Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leonard Calvin Holvik '40, Thayer 9, was on the Crew, and a member of the Glee Club...
Norman David Blotner '40, Thayer 29, was a member of the Government Council and of Phillips Brooks House...
Henry Hornblower II '41, Thayer 59, prepared at Milton Academy and Phillips Academy, Andover. He was a member of the Union Committee, the Winthrop House Committee, the Student Council, and Chairman of the Jubilee Committee. Last year he was elected Permanent Class Agent...
...first string fullbacks of last year's Freshman sqquad, Olie Taylor and Bob Harbison, are counted on to support Penson around the nets; while Sophomore Thayer Drake, Eli Berman, and "Bucky" Buckingham may break into the offensive line...
Though the green frog among his lily pads and the dappled deer in the sun-flecked forest are familiar to everyone, adaptive coloration has always confused biologists. Extremists like G. H. and Ab bott H. Thayer (whose Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom is often consulted by U.S. Army camouflage experts) have claimed that all animals are camouflaged, "the most gorgeous costumes being, in their own way, climaxes of obliterative coloring." Obliterative climax of the Thayers' theories-which made Theodore Roosevelt gnash his teeth and boom "Nature Fakers!"-was the idea that flamingos are concealingly colored because their foes...