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Andy Gump, a rancher at Scots' Mills, near Salem, Ore., announced that he will resort to the courts " to protect the dignity of his honorable name." Only recently has, he learned that a fictitious comic character of the same name has been a source of income to cartoonists, and that his patronymic no longer commands the respect that it once did. Said he in a letter to the ex-police chief of his home town: " I want it understood that I am a God-fearing man and will protect my rights...
Frederick August Otto Schwarz '24 of Greenwich, Conn., is the first winner of the scholarship recently established at the College in memory of the late Richard Perkins Parker '22 of Salem, by the gift of some ninety of his friends...
...scholarship is to be established at the University in memory of the late Richard Perkins Parker '22, of Salem, by the gift of his friends, about 90 of whom have collectively contributed $3000 for this purpose...
...addition to the routine work of the school, many plans have been made for educational excursions to such points of interest as Plymouth, Lexington and Concord, and Salem. The tennis courts and one of the boat houses will be open for use. Among the features of the school sessions, there will be a series of lectures by Professor C. T. Copeland '82, visits to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Wednesday evening musical entertainments at Appleton Chapel. Widener Library will be available to all students...
Stoughton, a member of the class of 1650, was one of the most prominent men of his time in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, of which he was lieutenant-governor. He served as chief justice in the notorious Salem witchcraft trials. It was he who presented to the University the original Stoughton Hall, which, "being an unsubstantial piece of masonry," had to be taken down in 1780 and was succeeded in 1806 by the present Stoughton Hall...