Word: avon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, a full professorship in the English department was left vacant. After 14 years of well-received teaching at Yale, popular Mr. French hoped that the fruits of his long labors might be rewarded. But another consideration arose last month. He was offered the Provostship of Avon Old Farms, a pretentious two-year-old experimental school at Avon, Conn...
Simultaneously Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, Yale lecturer, promoter of Avon Old Farms, announced that, sorry as he was to see Pedagog French leave Yale, he was glad to get him at Avon. Said Dr. Canby: "In accepting the Provostship of Avon, he is not leaving the educational area in which good teaching and the sympathetic handling of youth are so important, but shifting his ground...
...Cabot '92, former Headmaster of St. George's School, and now Chancellor of the Avon Old Farms School at Avon, Conn., will deliver the second of a series of four lectures on European schools in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock on Thursday evening. His subject will be "French Schools...
...Another famed Negro to play the Moor was Ira Aldridge in the early half of the 19th Century. To endow an Aldridge memorial chair in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. Negroes recentlv subscribed...
Elected. David Belasco, famed Manhattan theatrical producer; as a governor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, England...