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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...
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...
...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...