Word: benedicte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donor of Yale's windfall was Edward Benedict Cobb, a typical, obscure, sentimental old grad. Inheriting nearly $3,000,000 from his family (who had owned 300 acres in the heart of Tarrytown. N. Y. since Revolutionary times), Benedict Cobb went to Yale in 1868, played on his class chess team, made Psi Upsilon, was elected a class officer in his senior year. After his graduation in 1872, he got a law degree at Columbia and practiced law in Manhattan for twelve years. At 38, bored with the law, he retired and married a Yaleman's sister, Alice...
Bored not only by the law but also by society, music, art, outdoor sports and the movies, Benedict Cobb spent each summer quietly in Pittsfield, Mass., each autumn in Boston, each winter in Washington, each spring abroad. He seldom visited Tarrytown, his birthplace. But for some 60 years he went back often to New Haven for football games and alumni affairs. So modest, however, that he never posed for a photograph, Benedict Cobb was known to few Yalemen, was quickly forgotten when he dropped out of alumni activities...
Members of the Committee who are running the show, headed by Benedict Einarson, instructor of Classics, and President of the Club, explained yesterday why "The Birds" had been chosen. In the first place a Greek play is alternated with a Latin one, and this production has a minimum of long and difficult parts...
...Henry Arnold is used to explaining that he is related neither to Traitor Benedict Arnold nor to the several Generals Arnold who have since borne the name with honor...
Promptly Bride Pons Benedict Kostel-anelz flew lo South America. She made a six-week concert tour, he surveyed South American radio. Last week, Andre Kostel-anelz gave CBS his report on the honeymoon survey, incidentally upsetting popular ideas of the nature of Latin American radio listening...