Word: branford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a Connecticut woman packed up a rod & reel and repaired to a three-mile stretch of Branford River near New Haven, when the State trout season opened one day last week. Few of them minded much when they tangled their lines in trees and bushes, whipped their hooks into each others' clothes, got their wading boots waterlogged. They were happy because at last they had a chance to learn how to fish with no impatient male anglers standing by to criticize, complain, show off. Any husbands or fathers who went along had to sit meekly inactive...
Marriage Revealed. Albert James ("Albie") Booth, 24, Yale athlete; and Marion Noble, 23, New Haven secretary, his sweetheart since childhood; in Branford, Conn.; July...
...worth of steel girders, tan Gothic stonework* and shiny plumbing given by Edward Stephen Harkness to Yale as an eleven college "house plan" development (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930, March 9, 1931), names out of Yale's past will be given. Already named are Pierson, John Davenport, Branford, Saybrook and Berkeley Colleges. Three new names were added last week...
Newest feature is the long-awaited division of Yale college into residential quadrangles. Numbering eleven, these will be known not as "houses" (as at Harvard; but as "colleges." They will be given names celebrated in Yale history. Five of them?Berkeley, Saybrook, Branford, Pierson, Davenport?have already been projected, three in existent buildings, two in lavish Gothic piles now abuilding. Each college will have a "master" and about ten assistant or associate "fellows." Last year the first master was appointed: popular young Professor French...