Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other members of the committee named are: Gordon Huggins '29 of Montclair, N. J. John de Laittre '29 of Minneapolis minn; William Rupert Maclaurin '29 of Boston; Frank Augustus Pickard '29 of Concord Junction; Lawrence Milton Shaporo '29 of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and Richard Waterman Thayer '29 of Boston...
...produced a belated but powerful effect on the Academy, for it brought the appointment in 1817 of Major Thayer as superintendent, and an increase of the enrolment to 260. The easy-going discipline of the first years gave way to military exactitude, and this strict master issued precepts of education that were long and thoroughly successful. His Roman sternness lost the Academy one type of genius, of Edgar Allen Poe was dismissed after eight months of stormy revolt; but under Major Thayer, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee learned lessons that helped at least the latter to his military ascendancy...
Prospective legitimate members of the Hoover-for-President Club may still sign up at Thayer 23. The Hoover-for-President Club. Executive Committee...
...Sachs '29 will collect data about absentee voting in the various states. He will offer information on this, which will inform undergraduates on how to vote. Sachs will be in his room in Thayer 23 this morning and this evening to welcome Harvard Republicans who are interested in taking an active part in the campaign. Free literature and Hoover buttons will also be obtainable...
Retired. Harry Bates Thayer, chairman of the board of A. T. & T., after 47 years in the service of the Bell System. The first telephone conversation in history* took place only five years before young Thayer went to work for the Western Electric Co. He saw the Bell System's investment increase from $25,000,000 to more than $3,500,000,000. No man will ever fill his place, since grateful A. T. & T. last week discontinued the office of chairman of the board...