Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Insurrection, and World War I, Joseph Taussig never reached top rank (his biggest job: Chief of Staff of the U.S. Fleet). But, for a Navy man who had his rare, hazardous quality of dissent, he did very well. The Navy for years discouraged and repressed the late, great Alfred Thayer Mahan while he was evolving the doctrines which still guide the navies of the world. Vice Admiral Taussig, in his idle years, may well remember that Mahan on active duty never rose above a captaincy, got to be a Rear Admiral only after he had retired...
...Hoppy who saw to it that they were served by a reliable bootlegger. He let no one bully his liberal professors. When an irate alumnus offered Hoppy $50,000 if he would fire a professor who had denounced the conduct of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial by Judge Webster Thayer (a Dartmouth man), Hoppy told the professor about it. The professor fumed. Said Hoppy: "Don't get excited. If you quit, I will too, and we'll split...
...recipients are: Georges Brigham, Rivers; Hugh Calkins, Exeter; Bille C. Carlson, Exeter; Walter F. X. Collopy, Loomis; Charles A. Coolidge, Jr., Groton; Robert D. Cross, Exeter; Daniel D. Gage, Exeter; Richard L. Gardner, Noble and Greenough; David W. Hardy, Thayer; Harold C. Hinton, St. Paul's; Gilbert King, Jr., St. George's; Dryden P. Morse, Belmont Hill; Francis Parkman, Jr., Brooks; James W. Perkins, St. George's; Henry A. R. Peyton, Andover; Charles P. Slichter, Browne and Nichols; Stephen B. Smart, Jr., Milton; John R. Thompson, Andover; J. Robertson Ward, Jr., Milton; Bigelow Watts, Jr., St. Paul's; Alan...
...obtaining the highest total of points in the tournament. Matthews Hall will receive the Freshmen ping pong plaque. Following closely on Matthews' heels were Thayer Hall with 32 points and Weld with...
Matthews Hall came out first in the Phillips Brooks House Ping Pong contest with 39 points Wednesday, but Ted Cohn '44 of Thayer Hall walked off with top honors when he beat Grover Hansen '44 of Weld Hall in the finals that afternoon...