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With the possible exception of Herbert Hoover who became famed for other things, John Hays Hammond was the world's most famed mining engineer. From early youth he was familiar with horses, guns and gold mining. He mined gold with Cecil Rhodes, became an intimate of rulers and statesmen, a contented and hale old man in his last years. But his life once hung by a thread when, after the failure of the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, Hammond was sentenced to death by the Boers for conspiracy. The sentence was commuted and he got off with a fine...
Last year when John Hays Hammond died at the age of 81 in an easy chair in his showplace at Gloucester, Mass., he left an estate estimated at $2,500,000, mostly to his four children, Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard, Financier Harris. Observing that his own taste for economic adventure ran in the blood of his children, especially in that of Son Harris, Father Hammond protected them by leaving the bulk of their inheritances not outright but in trust funds. It was largely due to this foresight that in a Manhattan court last week Harris Hammond...
George L. Haskins '35, Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Mason Hammond '25, assistant professor of History and of Greek and Latin, and David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy, comprised the committee which made the award, fourth of its kind...
Mainstays in the stickmen's attack throughout the season have been Jim Wood, Hall Cleveland, Jim Hunsacker, and Charlie Hammond. On the defense John Witherspoon has been playing the same stellar game that won him a position on last year's All-American team...
Onetime (1925-29) U. S. Ambassador to Spain Ogden Haggerty Hammond, 67, vice president of the ist National Bank of Jersey City, was fined $1 for walking his wirehaired terrier in Manhattan's Central Park unleashed and unmuzzled...