Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battered little man, had been watching for the towel. As it struck, he stepped between the fighters. Friends rushed to the little man - he was a Featherweight Danny Kramer of Philadelphia- and helped him to his corner, beaten. The human whirlwind- he was Featherweight Louis ("Kid") Kaplan of Meriden, Conn.-stood panting but jubilant while they raised his right hand aloft and declared that, by a technical knockout, he was winner, he was world's featherweight champion...
Such widespread interest has been aroused in the eclipse that several colleges will close and take their student body in chartered trains into the eclipse path. The financial value of the eclipse is also evidenced by the fact that weather insurance has been taken out at Middletown, Conn., where the largest number of astronomical parties will be located...
This was the dream of Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle: Some 2,000 acres of meadow and rough woodland just west of Hartford, Conn., cut by boiling trout streams, bordered by the Farmington River. Built thereon, a rough-hewn stone village, copied after old Colonial villages, with heavy-timbered gables, hand-joined by wooden pegs; with split-oak roof-trees, slate-slabbed roofs and other backwoods atmosphere. In this village, a population of hardy schoolboys, citizen-students of Avon College (a school and junior college, preparatory to universities...
...spite of the rather lavish plan, tuition would be kept down to that of other preparatory schools. The whole would be a memorial to Mrs. Riddle's father-the late Alfred Atmore Pope of Farmington, Conn. Last week, it was announced that the buildings at Avon College were rising rapidly. It was announced also that Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, approved the whole idea as "a bold and far-looking experiment." The new school would "revive the colonial spirit...
...Middletown, Conn., the unrest appeared turbulent in the report of an intercollegiate conference held last month at Wesleyan University. This report, issued last week, coolly estimated that from 40 to 60% of the college students of the day are morons. The word "dumbbell"² was also used. Over this estimate, Prof. Charles Gray Shaw, of New York University, mused skeptically: "As a matter of fact," said he, "the students have more avidity for knowledge than their teachers can boast. . . . If they do not learn, it is because they are not taught. The conversation of students is often...