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...Antioch, Ashland, Bluffton, Capital, Defiance, Denison, Findlay, Heidelberg, Hiram, Kenyon, Lake Erie, Mount Union, Muskingum, Notre Dame College, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein, Western and Wooster...
...started selling papers (the Cleveland Press), later worked as a janitor at the high school until he graduated, taught country school during the winters to pay for his summer schooling at Wooster college, a Presbyterian school noted for its earnest emphasis on hard work and scholarship. Wooster was full of young men equally determined to get ahead. Ben ate at a boarding house where Robert E. Wilson, now chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, waited on table, and played on a baseball team (the "Never-Sweats") with Karl T. Compton, now chairman of the corporation of M.I.T., and Karl...
Here's Your Muffler. The impeccable Jeeves and the peccant Bertie Wooster, P.G.'s most famous characters, do not figure in these stories. Instead, there is the terrible Lord Bodsham, "The Curse of the Eastern Counties," and his dimwit daughter, Mavis Peasmarch. There is Freddie Widgeon, "a pretty clear-thinking chap [who] realized that you can't go strewing babies all over the place"; and Horace Bewstridge, an indomitable golfer who "clasped [Vera Witherby] to his bosom, using the interlocking grip...
...Wooster street taproom of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moriarty was dependent upon the same source for its income, but shone out above all other New Haven alehouses in disdaining the common American saloon trapping in favor of a quiet European charm and hospitality. A Yaleman of this era wrote, "Frank's offered a hospitality and possessed a dignity never acquired by any one of the various saloons in the district...
...University was at the river, watching a crew race between the Elis and their rivals from Cambridge. It was a hot day, and a group of seniors decided to drop off at an ale-house on their way back to their rooms. So they walked into a place on Wooster Street--any old bar would do--and were surprised to find themselves surrounded by the sombre atmosphere, the odor of British ale, the characteristic old prints, the quiet, order, and decency of an old English grilleroom...