Word: barnumism
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...last year's six man team, five are eligible to play this year. These men are: Captain E. S. Stimpson '27, Dwight Barnum '27, J. A. Hutchinson Jr. '28, Joseph Morrill '28 and E. D. Cole '27. Promising candidates from last year's squad are J. W. Hutchinson '29 and John Filoon...
...road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime pack-peddler. The original soap Babbitt peddled razor strops. Benedict Arnold took woolens into Canada. Cherry rum, gingerbread and candy were the stock in trade of Phineas T. Barnum before, aged 25, he bought "161-year-old" Joyce Heth, "George Washington's nurse," and turned showman. Purloining a sheaf of his father's sermons, the notorious Stephen Burroughs tramped to one empty pulpit after another...
Besides a great abundance of snow and ice Connecticut has very little to offer in the winter time. From henceforth, however, it will have even less, for Barnum's elephants, giraffes, monkeys--in fact his entire flora and fauna--are migrating to Florida, there to remain until time for the great spring trek...
...take them to Georgia where there is little to amuse the population except an occasional lynching? That Georgia should get them is but another example of the supreme unfitness of things. Nor, it might be added, is Coral Gables any place for a self-respecting hyena. If P. T. Barnum were alive he would realize that there is a place for all things--and that in its present condition Florida is no place for a menagerie...
Henry Fairfield Osborn, president, American Museum of Natural History: "Last week my wife and our curator's wife, Mrs. Barnum Brown, and Mrs. Childs Frick, poured tea for a company of museum and aquarium directors, Manhattan officials and society folk in a newly finished hall on the fourth floor of the American Museum. Over and around us towered the colossal skeletons of 47-foot tyrannosaunis rex, of 66-foot brontosaurus, or 'thunder lizard,' of leptoceratops, palaeoscius and many another dinosaur, of which the American Museum has the world's finest collection. The Hall of Dinosaurs which...