Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education, which was never formal after early high school days, is broad, and in some respects, deep. A voracious reader, he has taught himself what most academicians do not know how to teach-the ability to think constructively. His training as a writer began with reporting days in Davenport, Iowa. Later, in Chicago, he became associate, then editor of the Literary Page of the Evening Post, a position now ably filled by the wise (as well as clever) Llewellyn Jones, Since then he has been converted in one way or another with The Masses and The Liberator, but he likes...
Among the most interesting of the demonstrations was that in which troop 9 of Boston put 12 men over a wooden wall 15 feet high in 35 seconds. In the fire making contest without matches, E. D. Davenport of Troop 4 won the championship, adjusting the bow and string and whirling the pivot until he obtained a spark to light the flame all in 43 seconds...
...spoke at New Haven were H. M. Davidson, A. D. Phillips, and P. G. Kirk. Their opponents of Yale were C. A. Moore, J. G. Becker, and J. A. Davenport. Those who spoke at Cambridge for the University were: H. M. Hart, F. S. Tupper, and J. W. Perkins, while J. R. McCullough, J. C. L. Waterman, and Barlow Henderson took the affirmative for Princeton...
...Haven H. C. Davidson, A. D. Phillips, and P. G. Kirk for the Freshmen will face C. A. Moore, J. G. Becker, and J. A. Davenport of Yale. The alternate of the University first year team is R. W. Lishman. Philip Walker '25, coach of the University '26 teams, will accompany the affirmative team to New Haven...
...University 6-3; but lost to Yale 10-7. The Navy, on the other hand, defeated Yale. The Blue fencers also defeated the Crimson last week by an 8-5 score. There will be many of the country's best college fencers at the meet, including Hertzberg of Dartmouth, Davenport and Huntington of Yale, and E. H. Lane '24 and E. L. Lane '24 of Harvard. Hertzberg, who had never been defeated by any of the University fencers for four years, finally succumbed this season to both E. H. Lane '24 and E. L. Lane '24. Davenport and Huntington...