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Rutherford Hayes Plays Ball as Student at Kenyon College, OH
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | College, FamousCollege, Famous |
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| Text | In a May 13 letter to his brother, the future President observed: "Playing ball is all the fashion here now and it is presumed that I can beat you at that if not at chess."
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| Sources | Williams, C. R., ed., Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States volume 1 [Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, Columbus OH, 1922], page 33. |
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| Submitted by | John Thorn |
| Submission Note | 10/12/2004 |
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1839.3 Rutherford Hayes Plays Ball as Student at Kenyon College, OH"
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