Word: bragdon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featuring an article entitled "Harvard at the Turn of the Century," by William B. Bragdon '01, the first issue of the 1938-39 Alumni Bulletin goes on sale today. Bragdon relates the tale of football games of yore, when the present Anderson, bridge had as its predecessor a "shaky and rickety draw-bridge." His article also included reminiscences about famous John the Orangeman, and some significant calls of "Rhinehart...
...Bragdon, Maine farmer, had a long day. Its morning began in 1870, when Gus was merely the youngest of the Bragdon boys, farming his few stony acres when the weather would let him, working in the winter at the Navy Yard at Kittery. The Blaines, aristocrats of the neighborhood, looked down on the Bragdons as closefisted grubbers; so did everyone else but the no-account Linscotts. But the Bragdons had never been whiffle-minded, and Gus was the least whiffle-minded of the lot. He went his taciturn way, refused to get religion, left the church when his brethren...
...students and faculty of all eastern colleges are invited to attend the affair, and the Wesleyan fraternities are prepared to take care of a limited number of men overnight. Individuals who desire to make reservations should write to Marshall Bragdon, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut...