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...Colonial-type Timothy Dwight college, and on the other by the Dwight college, and on the other by the Gothic Van-Sheff buildings, with the result that it is feared in New Haven that a combination of the two styles will be employed, as it has been in Davenport College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Plans New 10th Unit in College Plan; Fight Over Architecture Looms | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

Leonard N. Donsanto, of 62 Hobson Street, Brighton, who received a D.M.D. last June from the Dental School has been awarded the Davenport Prize of $50, the highest honor at the school, the University announced today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Donsanto Gets Fifty Dollar Dental Prize, Highest Award | 10/7/1938 | See Source »

...prize is given annually to that member of the graduating class "who during his four-year course is deemed best to have upheld the ideals of the school in loyalty, character, high scholastic standing, and quality of work." The award was given by Dr. S. Ellsworth Davenport, Jr., D.M.D. '10, of New York City, in memory of his father...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Donsanto Gets Fifty Dollar Dental Prize, Highest Award | 10/7/1938 | See Source »

...student generation to which thumbs have more to do than pull out plums, six-foot, 20-year-old Stanley Fiese of Beloit (Wis.) was last week putting his 185 lb. of brain and brawn behind a helpful idea-Registered Collegiate Thumbers. A student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport (Iowa), he got the idea last May, thumbed his way around during the summer to enlist boys in several colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Thumbs Up | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Davenport Theatre was last week performing Zunguru by an African playwright-composer, Asadata Dafora Horton, whose Kykunkor got rave notices from Broadway critics in 1934. Primitive in plot, Zunguru was a kind of savage vaudeville, with three blacks pounding African drums, brown girls strutting their stuff, a witch doctor gabbling and shrieking, a fire-eater munching lighted torches-all of it "background" for Boy Meets Girl in Senegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Free for All | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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