Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Charles R. Apted(June 18, 1873 – June 5, 1941)was for 38 years chief of the Harvard Yard police("Harvard Cop No. 1", the Boston Globe called him)and superintendent of Harvard buildings.He first gained national prominence in 1915, when he identified the dynamite-wielding intruder who had shot J. P. Morgan, Jr. as wife-poisoner, U.S. Senate bomber, and crazed former Harvard language instructor Erich Muenter.Apted was born in Boston of English-immigrant parents, and worked for a time in insurance.He began at Harvard in 1902 as a clerk in the office of the Supervisor of Caretaking. "Old Harvard grads remember him for the sympathetic help he gave some of the poorer students [when] he had charge of the Furniture Loan Department." Eventually he became Supervisor of Caretaking, which included oversight of the Harvard Police Patrol.Though not a Harvard graduate, he felt "as much like one as all the Lowells and Quincys and Adamses and Kirklands together", and was an honorary member of the class of 1906, having enrolled in two Harvard architecture courses that year.He was elected to the Cambridge "common council" in 1914, and to the city council in 1916.In 1933 it was into Apted's hands that the so-called Sacred Cod (stolen days earlier from the Massachusetts State House) was delivered by two young men at a late-night rendezvous, to which he had been directed by a mysterious telephone call.His 1940 retirement dinner, "in Harvard's paneled old Memorial Hall [at which] 600 Harvard men dined & wined him [and] the Harvard Glee Club sang 'Behold the Lord High ExecutionerTemplate:'", was reported in Time magazine's Education sectionand the New York Times.One year later his front-page Boston Globe obituary said,Long after the memories of other college officials had dimmed into the past, Harvard men remembered "Col." Apted. He was both feared and beloved by undergraduates during three university presidential administrations, and he was the subject of more class day anecdotes, probably, than even such other traditional Harvard characters as Profs. Charles Townsend Copeland and George Lyman Kittredge.He had been married to Eva C. (Hunt) Apted.. }
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- Charles_R._Apted abstract "Charles R. Apted(June 18, 1873 – June 5, 1941)was for 38 years chief of the Harvard Yard police("Harvard Cop No. 1", the Boston Globe called him)and superintendent of Harvard buildings.He first gained national prominence in 1915, when he identified the dynamite-wielding intruder who had shot J. P. Morgan, Jr. as wife-poisoner, U.S. Senate bomber, and crazed former Harvard language instructor Erich Muenter.Apted was born in Boston of English-immigrant parents, and worked for a time in insurance.He began at Harvard in 1902 as a clerk in the office of the Supervisor of Caretaking. "Old Harvard grads remember him for the sympathetic help he gave some of the poorer students [when] he had charge of the Furniture Loan Department." Eventually he became Supervisor of Caretaking, which included oversight of the Harvard Police Patrol.Though not a Harvard graduate, he felt "as much like one as all the Lowells and Quincys and Adamses and Kirklands together", and was an honorary member of the class of 1906, having enrolled in two Harvard architecture courses that year.He was elected to the Cambridge "common council" in 1914, and to the city council in 1916.In 1933 it was into Apted's hands that the so-called Sacred Cod (stolen days earlier from the Massachusetts State House) was delivered by two young men at a late-night rendezvous, to which he had been directed by a mysterious telephone call.His 1940 retirement dinner, "in Harvard's paneled old Memorial Hall [at which] 600 Harvard men dined & wined him [and] the Harvard Glee Club sang 'Behold the Lord High ExecutionerTemplate:'", was reported in Time magazine's Education sectionand the New York Times.One year later his front-page Boston Globe obituary said,Long after the memories of other college officials had dimmed into the past, Harvard men remembered "Col." Apted. He was both feared and beloved by undergraduates during three university presidential administrations, and he was the subject of more class day anecdotes, probably, than even such other traditional Harvard characters as Profs. Charles Townsend Copeland and George Lyman Kittredge.He had been married to Eva C. (Hunt) Apted.".