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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Barrett Whitney Stevens of New York City was appointed manager. John Orren Ross of Redding, Conn., was appointed Assistant Manager, and Alfred Skinner Woodworth of Boston was appointed Second Assistant Manager. The appointments were made at the end of a 12 weeks competition. Manager Woodworth also announced that the Manager and Assistant Manager will receive Freshman numerals. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee. The newly appointed managers will be eligible for next year's competition for assistant University managerships...
...miracle. In his thin, ascetic features, in his calm eyes, about which tiny wrinkles have come, in his masterful grey mustache and his silky grey hair, in these they will not see the boy of 16 who on the death of his seafaring father went into a New Haven, Conn., wire mill as a common laborer. But he was alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman over 300 men; at 30 a master supersalesman and general manager...
...case of the youngest headmaster in the U. S. is in point. Twenty years ago Father Frederick H. Sill of the Order of the Holy Cross (Episcopal) procured an old farmhouse near Kent, Conn., enrolled 18 pupils and three masters, founded Kent School. The first night of school the headmaster cooked scrambled eggs which the boys served, the beginning of a regimen of self-help that has continued until today, when Kent is a flourishing school of 200 boys. Kent teaches self-reliance, directness of purpose and simplicity of life, in a quiet rural community...
...Haven, Conn., February 5.--Carlos F. Stoddard Jr., who retires this week as editor of the Yale Daily News, said today in the leading editorial of that newspaper that the French peasant is incomparably more devout and chast than the rank and file of Americans; that France is infinitely more civilized than we are; that Italy has created art which few of us are fit to look upon. Mr. Stoddard's editorial, signed by him, was entitled "One Last Shot", and was a final volley of the News at prohibition, which the News has consistently attacked during his administration...
...HARVARD CONN. AGGIESSmith, Dorn, r.f. l.g., AllardJones, Leekley, l.f. r.g., Bitgood, DaleyRauh, McCurdy, c. c., MakofskiMalick, r.g. l.f., SchofieldCoombs, Barbee...