Word: groton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pink-cheeked, spectacled Dirck Roosevelt, 13, son of Kermit Roosevelt and grandson of the late U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt, parked against a fence in Groton, Mass., one warm afternoon last week and brooded. He gazed in distaste at his books, at Groton School. The reflection that his father was adventuring in the South Seas added nothing to his contentment. The bright sunshine increased his gloom. He fished out his wallet, thoughtfully counted $8. He turned to his spectacled, 13-year-old companion, Henry Wyse Distler, son of a Baltimore engineer. "Come on," he said abruptly. Without more ado they...
That night Groton's worried headmaster, Dr. Endicott Peabody, telephoned Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt in New York that her son was missing. "Well, call the police." said she. By morning the police had picked up the first ominous clue, in Springfield. Two boys had registered in a hotel as Dick and Henry Godernick, spent the evening, hurried out at midnight. In their room was found a letter: "Dear Mother: Soon will be home from school. It is all very boring. How is the baroness? Ha." There were also some school notes...
...next train. In her East 69th Street house Mrs. Roosevelt grimly sent the boys supperless to bed -on separate floors. To newsmen Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Distler explained that the escapade was merely "an ill-advised prank." that their chief worry was whether the boys would be readmitted to Groton. Said the parents: "They really love the school...
Goodhue, of Boston and Eliot House, prepared at Groton and has been assistant manager of his Freshman and Varsity football teams, editor of the Freshman Red Book, editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, and this year's author of the Undergraduate Week in the Alumni Bulletin...
Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., of New York and Holworthy Hall, from Groton; Chairman of the Union Committee, Phillips Brooks House Freshman Committee, Squash team, Red Book Board, Debating team...