Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-25
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in three and a half years. He grad
uated In 1909 at the head Of his class
and won the Phi Beta Kappa key, a
trinket symbclical OF merit, which his
bride also won in her college days.
He managed the football team, organ.
led the Good Government club to stu
dy municipal government, and took
trips with members of that club to
sociological instruments to study
child labor and other problems Of So
cial welfare. He was active in com
mittee work of the Y. M. C. A., took
great interest in the work Of the BIZ
Bile classes, vas on the varsity Ge-
batting teams, contributed to the col
lege magazines, and found time,
moreover, to do a great deal Of tramp
ing and horseback riding over the
New England hills as well as to play
tennis and go canoeing. He went as
the personal assistant to DR.. Wilfred
r. Grenfell to do hospital work along
the coast of Labrador in 1909. Buck
ing ice on the dangerous northern
coast proved more than once a ha-
zardous undertaking. DR.. Graenfell's
little steamer-the Strathcona-is
practically the only one that brings
medical help to the north, and it was
in those days when young sayre join
ed him in holding services on the.
rocks for the Laborador fishermen,
that an affection and close friendship
developed, which is reflected today
in the selection orr DR.. Grenfell as
hest man at the wedding Incidentally
it is returning the compliment, for
three years ago Sayre acted as one
of the ushers at the wedding of DR..
Grenfell and is godfather to Wilfred
,Grenfell, Jr.
When returning from the Grenfell
camp in 1909, Sayre missed his stea-
mer but found the artic ship-Roose-
velt-with Peary aboard, at Battle
Harbor, and acted as secretary for
the explorer. At another time, in
Newfoundland, he tramped 100 miles
in ten days with a friend. They could
not keep the route planned and, aft
er much suffering from black flies in
the forest underbrush, reached the
habitation Of a friendly hermit ex-
hausted from want of food and rest.
They had had no guides, and took
only the supplies they could carry
on their backs. Sayre's companion
on this expedition was Dr.. Dewitt
Seville Ccoville Clark, Jr., of Salem,
Mass, n of the ushers at the we'd
ding.
Once the same two travelled 1900
miles down the Yukon river in Alas.
ka. And when they got to Nome,
they wanted to get to Siberia across
the Berling strait. Most folk told
them it couldn't be done, but they set
out in a 15-ton schooner which they
happened to pick UP, and after a thrill
ling adventure in a deep fog, haul
ed up against Asia. Sasfe 20: as far
north as Sc degrees, and in the sum-
mer of 1911 took a trip with some
Indians to see some gold claims in
Alaska. On that occasion, too, he
felt some thrills as he and his com
panions in two short .dugouts shot
over cascades and falls between
and glaciers in the Klehina
river.
Besides his explorations around the
Arctic circle, Sayre's %recreations have
included several months on sheep
ranches in Wyoming and Montana,
with the fun of "riding the roundup"
He rode across the state of Wyoming
once, and has hunted elk and deer in
the Rockies. He once added to his
of experience a winter in the
coal mines at Birmingham. Ala.
At the Harvard Law School, where
he entered in the fall of 1909, he liv-
ed without ostentation, graduating in
cum laude. There he met and
an intimate friend of Charles
Evans Hughes, Jr., a son of the SUI
court justice, who is to be an
Usher at the wedding today.
After leaving the law school, Sayre
entered the office of District Attor-
1ey Whitman in New York, where he
has been for about a year.
,Sayre's ambition is to enter public
life some day if he can He means to
ice simply and economically, and
of independent means, he
consider himself wealthy
enough to W and keep an automo-
bile.
But, while Sayre has been busy dur
ng the two and a half years that he
las known Miss Wilson, he has man
aged to find time on week-ends to
pursue his courtship. To WOO the
laughter of the president elect and
avoid the limelight of publicity was
lif1icult.
Often since he has been a weekend
guest at the white house, but it never
generally known and no one in
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