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Endowed with a brilliant mind, Fall secured admission to both Harvard and Oxford at the age of 15. In January, 1903, he entered New College, Oxford, from which he was graduated in two years and a half, the youngest man to complete the Oxford course for a quarter of a century. At New College he played on the football team and rowed on one of the college crews. In the fall of 1906 he entered Harvard, finishing the work for his degree in one year, and gaining an honorary scholarship. In the autumn of his Sophomore year he went...
...first suitable opportunity for the members of the University to show their appreciation for the work of Harvard's youngest successful playwright comes next Tuesday night. Mrs. Fiske will appear in "Salvation Nell," by E. B. Sheldon '08, at the Majestic Theatre next week, and on the second night of the engagement a sufficient number of seats have been reserved for all Harvard men who wish to attend. It is fitting for the Dramatic Club to take charge of this welcome for its founder and first president, and we feel sure that a large number of undergraduates will join...
...being and not a bureaucrat. It was not that he could always save you or wished always to save you from academic penalties--and yet I well remember the first year of the Administrative Board of the College, when he was the oldest and I was one of the youngest of its members, how he always seemed to take the side of a student in trouble, much to the impatience of some of us younger brethren, who were too apt to think that "something must really be done about this case." But when he wished not to save...
...graduated from De Pauw University in 1885, where he made a name for himself in oratory. Entering a law office, he was soon admitted to the bar, and practiced law until his election in 1899 to the United States Senate, of which he was at that time the youngest member. He is the author of "The Russian Advance," "The Young Man and the World," "History of the Philippines," and has also contributed to many of the leading magazines...
...national life. To Harvard University come from the common schools, through paths that have been broadened by your work, the youth who have the capacity and the will to profit by her teaching Your influence is felt in the councils of the teachers and in the education of the youngest child...