Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nautical, critical immigrant who has written so noteworthy a book as Casuals of the Sea and such commendable books as Captain Macedoinc's Daughter, Aliens and Command, and who now purposes to become a U. S. citizen, anchored for further writing (a sequel to Race) at Westport, Conn., should remind his new countrymen of the texture of his thought. Grimly opposed to "sea stuff," particularly in the magazines of a landlubber nation, he is himself by no means all sailor. His concern is the large "ineluctable problem of human folly," his attitude that of a "benevolent marbleheart...
...Park, Illinois, assistant manager of Freshman track; Victor Owen Jones '28 of Cambridge, manager of Freshman baseball; Corcoran Thom Jr. '28 of Washington, D. C., assistant manager of Freshman baseball; Water Egan Trevvett '27 of Cleveland, second assistant manager of tennis: Carleton Sprague Smith '27 of Washington, Conn.. assistant manager of the second tennis team; Langdon Dearborn '28 of Havana, Cuba, manager of Freshman hockey: Edmund Balch Jackson '28 of Cambridge, assistant manager of Freshman hockey; and Arthur Cook Lane '27 of Lynnfield, assistant manager of fencing...
...Conn., June 4.--Although the thermometer again registered 98 degrees here today, all four University crews were given six mile workouts in both the morning and the afternoon. The oarsmen are rapidly rounding into the perfect condition which results from regular living and exercise, and Dr. Harding anticipates no ill effects from such a strenuous program even in weather as warm as it was today...
...Haven, Conn., June 2.--"It was an ordinary 'Bottle Night' for the Freshmen," said Dean Walden of the Yale class of 1928 in commenting on the informal Freshman celebration Sunday. "The uproar that the class of 1928 made Saturday night has been grossly exaggerated in some of the printed stories. They threw some things from their windows, largely glass and crockery, but the damage was slight. Their worst disorder was to start a bonfire. We of Yale live in a city and bonfires should not be started...
...Conn., June 1--With the shells and all the crews and coaches except Coach Spuhn and the Second University eight, installed here again, the drive before the Yale race has begun. The Seconds are not expected to arrive before Wednesday, having been given a rest since their race at the Henley Regatta on Saturday...