At an Amherst Alumni dinner, held last week in Manhattan (which Alumnus Calvin Coolidge was unable to attend), anecdotes of the President were told, including:
1) Colonel John, when his son was 15, conceived that Calvin might do better in a drugstore than at college. In those days, druggists sold liquor openly. When Calvin was told, he answered:
"Father— sell rum?" (By President Olds.)
2) President Coolidge at dinner at the home of Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts did not eat much. The host asked whether he would like anything else.
"Yes, Allen," answered Mr. Coolidge. "Get me a dish of stewed...
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