Word: valedictorian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British nobility, firmly believed that Kenyon was a British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase, the Founder's nephew. Valedictorian of the Class of 1842 was Rutherford Birchard Hayes...
...juveniles are the real center of interest, however, and the lead is capably done by Eric Linden as the valedictorian of his class who is really a fine boy but somewhat carried off through reading Swinburne, Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. Cecillia Parker is the sweetheart who promises to remember him even after he has gone away to Yale...
Robert M. Coquillette, age 16, of 816 Belmont avenue, Flint, Mich. He attended Flint Central High School. He is the son of Leon W. Coquillette, member of the faculty of General Motors Institute of Technology. He was valedictorian of his class, was a member of the student council, a member of the debating team, president of the band, was on the staff of the school annual, and was a leader in school clubs. This year he won the D. A. R. prize in the city of Flint for receiving the highest mark in a high school competitive examination in United...
Cousin Julius had been valedictorian at Lawrenceville, vice president of his Princeton class (1914), a distinguished army officer in France. Back home with a D.S.C., Croix de Guerre, many a citation, he retained his title of colonel and a love for the military...
...rich. The fourth goes back a little farther and starts to unravel the story of Richard and his first wife, Althea and the producer she deserted when she met Richard. By the time Merrily We Roll Along reaches Act III, Scene 3, Richard Niles is a blithe young valedictorian proudly spouting to his college classmates on the subject of ideals. "I give you the words of Polonius," he squeaks, " 'To thine own self be true...