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...attempted break and prison-burning less than five months ago (TIME, Aug. 5), were supposed to be having lunch. They were not eating. Some of them had handcuffed six guards and marched them back to the punishment cells to set free their comrades. They had sent a message to Warden Jennings and he was there now, manacled and trembling, a white-haired man with a lined, anxious face, a hostage. The prisoners waited for their leader, Convict Henry Sullivan, to tell them how the guards and troopers at the main gate, where the siren was screaming, had received their ultimatum...
...chief occasion, however, of the tercentennial celebration will be the magnificent spectacle planned for July 15. At that time the Right Honorable William Laurens Fisher. Warden of New College, Oxford, will deliver an oration befitting the day. Mr. Fisher is not unknown to Boston and Cambridge audiences, since he has been a lecturer at the Lowell Institute here twice in past years. His address will come at the height of the tercentennial celebration, after a procession of dignitaries from all over the world has marched to a special pavilion which will, it is planned, be erected on the terrace...
...general impression, due to widespread newspaper stories, that Harvard is trying anything particularly important toward educational reform, in this her house plan, or that I have been engaged in any misrepresentation, as might be inferred, I ask the courtesy of your columns for this note. Bernard Iddings Bell. Warden and Dean. St. Stephen's College. Columbia University...
...police surmises were correct, Badman Nannery had two disappointments last week. Added to the failure of the Naval Base raid was the frustration of a jailbreak plot at Sing Sing, in which Pal Ryan was embroiled. Warden Lewis Edward Lawes of Sing Sing keeps the most desperate of his charges in the thick-walled, century-old cellblock (TIME, Nov. 18). From an outside "wire" (tipoff) he learned that Ryan and three others in old Sing Sing were concocting a plot. Slyly he watched them. Suddenly the four were seized, their cells searched. In one were found draftsman's designs...
...George's Church has intransigent traditions. One of Dr. Reiland's predecessors, Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (rector 1882-1906), had many a difference over church affairs with his senior warden John Pierpont Morgan (father of the present J. P.) and was finally forced to resign because of his too-liberal beliefs. After Dr. Rainsford's resignation, Financier Morgan presented him with a house in the country, near Ridgefield, Conn., where he still lives, snowy-haired, patriarchal, surrounded with trophies of his big-game hunts...