Word: woodman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentleman named Francis Woodman has a pleasant routine three days of every week. He comes from his home in Jamaica Plain, and walks slowly from the Yard to Soldiers Field, admiring the changes that time has imprinted on the undergraduate and the view. For Mr. Woodman was a Senior here when Saturday football games were played on Jarvis Field and the best rooms were in Grays and Matthews. Many years have passed since 1888, and now he has come back after retirement to watch football practices, attend Sunday chapel, and at least partially relive the unworried college days...
...from a Nickel. In the beginning (and until 1901), Town & Country was the homely Home Journal, originally a newspaper-size nickel weekly. Its founders were Nathaniel Willis, the man who helped make European travel fashionable, and George P. Morris, the man who wrote Woodman, Spare That Tree. For the provincial U.S. of 1846, their aim was high: "... to give the cream of new books, to keep a watchful lookout for genius in literature, music...
Francis Call Gore Woodman...
...Woodman Bradbury Pomeroy...
Learn in Asia. Calvert methods are a mixture of many traditions. Earnest, friendly Headmaster Edward Woodman Brown (Princeton '23) is no "progressive" educator. A tall and talented tennist, he looks older than his 42 years. He stresses discipline and English composition in a special Calvert up-&-down script. Brown is proud that Calvert has helped make life bearable for U.S. children in crowded Jap concentration camps like that in Shantung's Wei-hsien. The Calvert method was used there for six months by Rochester's Mrs. Frederick G. Scovel, wife of a medical missionary. Repatriated...