Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About four years ago, a Boston badminton professional named George F. ("Jess") Willard visited Hollywood. Cinemagnates, always on the lookout for new fads, showed only less enthusiasm for learning the game than for telling the rest of the world all about what they had learned. Three years ago, Warner Brothers released a one-reel short called Good Badminton. Last year the firm of Fanchon & Marco hired Jess Willard to play exhibition matches in movie houses. Current rumor is that Walt Disney will produce a badminton cartoon in which Mickey Mouse will oppose Donald Duck. In Hollywood, badminton is not only...
Ford also stated on behalf of the Class Day Committee that because of the sabbatical absence of Willard L. Sperry, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, the Baccalaureate Services, the Commencement morning prayer, and the Triangle Exercise prayer Class Day morning would be conducted by the Reverend Charles E. Park, of the First Church of Boston...
Howard L. Blackwell, Jr. '39 was second in the Boylston prizes, and Willard M. Whitman, Jr. '39, third, each receiving...
...Laird Mck. Ogle, '37, of Norwalk, Conn., "Hector's Farewell to Andromache," from The Hiad, Book VI, Homer; Ellwood M. Rabenold Jr. '37, of New York, N. Y., "The Judiciary Act of 1802," by Hon. James A. Bayard; Fred Rogosin '39, of Dorchester, Mass., "Steel," by Joseph Auslander; and Willard M. Whitman Jr. '39, of Marquette, Mich., "The Creation," by James W. Johnson...
...Willard Scholarship to Joseph T. McCullough 1G, of Athens, Ohio; Austin Scholarship to Hollis M. Levenson 1GEd, of Cambridge; Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship to R. Vernon Hays 1GEd, of Ansley, Nebraska; and University Scholarships to David A. Grodberg 1GEd, of Worcester; and George B. Simon 1GEd, of Newton Center...