Datebook 1922: Thursday, March 16, 1922

Overcast and cool. Arose 9 A.M. Breakfast etc. Out on business. Dinner. Ruth's S.S. class here making clam chowder in evening. To College to B.B. game Union 24, Brown 26. Took R.P. home. To bed 12 P.M.

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The basketball game Stanford refers to is erroneously cited. It might seem a familiar score, and that's because that game was played days ago and the game that was actually played on Thursday, March 16, 1922 was against Columbia. But that game was also lost, 18-20. Below is the article that appeared in the March 17th Schenectady Gazette.

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband, son and friend. This is the fourth installment of Date Book, covering 1922 (the first three cover 1919-1921). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1922 to January 1, 2016, for instance--with one entry per day.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford.

And this year, because Stanford moves to Boston when he starts his graduate program at Boston University, I will be adding information about early 1920s Boston as well as Schenectady.

Through these annotations, I hope to convey a sense of Stanford's life and times. And of course, I'm also hoping to give his descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1922

Thursday, March 16, 1922

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