Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...downfall of Patrick Kelly, 10-year-old orphan from New Haven, Conn., was tragic. Patrick had arrived in Washington with 21 textbooks on grammar and spelling, including a "dictionary" by Patrick Kelly, containing over 4,000 words hard to spell. Somehow he had overlooked "blackguard," and when the word-giver pronounced it, "blaggard," Patrick said, "Huh ?", and then spelled it just the way it sounded. Every one liked Patrick...
Yale University (New Haven), Conn.) distributed honorary degrees to Edward S. Harkness, '97, a wealthy benefactor; the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, "one of the foremost pulpit orators of the world"; Robert Andrews Milliken, President of the California-Institute of Technology; Ernest Martin Hopkins, President of Dartmouth College; Alumnus John Hays Hammond, mining engineer; Alumnus Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania; Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America; Alumnus James Rockwell Sheffield, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico...
...Creitz Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.), $1,000; William M. Ryan, St. Edward's University (Austin, Tex.), $500; Edward F. Barrett Jr., Canisius College (Buffalo), $450; Jack P. McGuire, University of Oregon, $400; J. Duane Squires, University of North Dakota, $350; Clarence McLean Gifford, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn...
...Haven, Conn., June 15. Bayes Marshal Norton of Vineyard Haven, Mass., was elected captain of the Yale track team this afternoon. Norton prepared at Exeter and was high point scorer in the meet this afternoon
...Paul, Minn; Philip Wigglesworth Chase, of Milton; Charles Franklin Dunbar, of Cambridge; Robert Maurice Davidson of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hugh Langdon Elstree of Preston Hollow, N. Y.; William Alexander Grimes, of Catonsville, Me.; Saul Wallenstein Jarcho, of New York, N. Y.; Victor Harris Kugel, of New Haven, Conn.; Morris Marden, of Winthrop; Prescott Clifton Mabon, of New York, N. Y.; Henry Reiff of New York, N. Y.; Irwin Rosen of Lowell; Albert Eberle Schwartz, of Cincinnati, O.; and Bartlett Jere Whiting, of East Northport...