Word: grafton
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Congress made no educational provision at all for nine-year-old Grafton Dulany Hanson, the first Capitol page, who was appointed during Jackson's Administration by both Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over the pages. Captain White had a singular outlook on education: martial spirit, he felt, was everything. So he marched the pages around & around the House cloakrooms in close-order drill until they were dead tired and fighting mad.* After Captain White's time, a loose system of private tutoring...
...Trip to Court. Last week, indicted for manslaughter, young Tom Doxsee came to trial at Plymouth, 48 miles from Dartmouth. The prosecutor, Grafton County Solicitor Robert Jones, was a Dartmouth graduate. So was one of Doxsee's lawyers, Charles Tesreau, son of the late Jeff Tesreau, onetime Dartmouth baseball coach and pitcher for the New York Giants...
Doxsee is free on ball of $5000 until the case comes before the Grafton County Grand Jury, May 18. He is expected to remain at his home in Fayetteville, New York, until that time...
HANOVER, N. II. March 21--All six Dartmouth undergraduates identified by police as involved in the fatal beating of Raymond J. Cirrotta Friday received indefinite suspensions from college tonight, pending the findings of the Grafton County grand jury, which is scheduled to hold its first hearing...
Married. Kathleen Harriman, 29, pretty daughter of Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman; and Stanley Grafton Mortimer Jr., 34, Manhattan socialite; she for the first time, he for the second; in Arden, N.Y. Mortimer's first wife, Barbara Gushing, divorced him last year, married CBS Board Chairman William Paley last July...