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These are the main facts of my mother's personal history. She was born of Scotch parents recently arrived at Burlington, Vt., in 1821. Her early life was spent at Troy, N. Y., and New York City. Married to William Shields in 1846, she was mother of a large and active family in the Middle West in a time deeply affected by the Civil War. She died after a brief illness of pneumonia in 1883. A devout member of the Presbyterian Church of which her brother, Alexander Duncan, was the minister, her activities outside her home were largely given...
Most large college legacies, spotted as far in advance and nursed as diligently by their beneficiaries as prep-school football stars, are equally devoid of surprise. Last week officials of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. Y., contemplating news of a legacy whose eventual value might reach $6,000,000, professed utter amazement. Said President William Otis Hotchkiss: "All I know about it is what I read in the papers...
Early last week rumors began flying in Williamstown, Mass, that President Tyler Dennett of Williams College was going to resign. Bristle-headed President Dennett, fishing at his camp near Lake George, N. Y., would not deny or confirm. Neither would Lawyer Bentley Wirt Warren, suave chairman of the finance committee of Williams' Board of Trustees. But when the story was published as fact by the Springfield Republican, President Dennett broke his silence to announce that for two weeks his resignation had been sealed, delivered, and accepted by the trustees to take effect Sept. i. "The sole issue between...
...constant radio contact with British stations in Newfoundland and Ireland and Pan American bases in New Brunswick and New York. Few hours later the flights ended uneventfully. The Caledonia landed at Foynes in Ireland, continued to Southampton. The Clipper III landed at Botwood, Newfoundland, continued to Port Washington, N. Y...
...famed U. S. golfer of the early post-War era. He won the Professional Golfers Association Championship twice (1916 and 1919), the U. S. Open in 1921, the British Open in 1925, retired from tournament golf because he was bored by it in 1932. Last week at Huntington, N. Y., when the -Long Island Open Championship was played over his home Crescent Club course, Long Jim Barnes, 51, decided it was his duty as host to compete. He chose the smallest available caddy, picked a clover leaf to chew while playing, as has always been his habit...