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Officially designated "Grand Old Man of Maine" by Governor William Tudor Gardiner, Dr. Julian Daniel Taylor is at 85 "dean of U. S. college professors." Rugged, venerable, he has taught Latin at Colby for 63 years. Though retired as professor emeritus, he still conducts a senior Latin course. Unanimously, Colby alumni elected him last summer to the board of trustees. Less rich than Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell or Groton's late William Amory Gardner, who left Groton $500,000, Harvard $100,000, he is comfortably off. Married in 1892 to Mary Keely Boutelle of Waterville...
...Manhattan's East 63rd Street is his town house. In its library he has stored an enviable collection of ancient legal books. Portraits of his ecclesiastical ancestors outstare each other from the high walls, and in winter a fire crackles on a Tudor hearth. There is candlelight...
...older school regards as supererogatory: to train the youth in self-control, stick-to-it-iveness, fair play, courage, self-restraint, etc. etc. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, stove manufacturer and onetime itinerant clock salesman whose own education had been meagre, it has today a fine military Tudor-Gothic plant and 677 cadets?twice as many as any other U. S. private military school. On the wooded shores of Lake Maxinkuckee it stands, hard by the farm where Founder Culver met and married Emily Jane Hand in 1864. He died in 1897, aged 57, but his wife...
Announcement was made last night at the Harvard Athletic Association of the award to Samuel Lawrence Batchelder '31, of Boston, of the John Tudor Memorial Cup, which is made annually to some member of the Harvard hockey team. Batchelder played defense on the hockey team this winter...
...Tudor Cup was first awarded last spring, the recipient being Harwood Ellis '31, at a dinner tendered the hockey squad. A perpetual trophy, the Cup was given by W. L. Elkins '29, F. A. Clark '29, and W. T. Wetmore '30, and is awarded annually to "the player who is of greatest value to Harvard hockey, not so much because of his ability but because of his heart." The idea behind the award is to present this trophy not necessarily to the best player nor again to the hardest worker, but to the player who best exemplifies John Tudor...