Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Would that my boy showed as much initiative in mathematics as your juvenile correspondent, Richard Wilson, of Davenport, Iowa [TIME, Mar. 15, LETTERS]. But I think Richard is comparing oranges with apples. The rate he quotes from Davenport to Charleston, S. C., is the so-called evening rate. The Union (City?), N. J., man who talked 41 minutes to Charleston evidently used the day rates on a person-to- person call. It makes a difference...
...Yale team was forced by the nature of the question to rely chiefly on wit and humorous effects to support the affirmative, while the Crimson debaters had the advantage of being able to bring into play the more serious aspects of the matter. Basil Davenport, the last speaker for the affirmative, showed himself particularly adept at warding off his opponents by a brilliant and witty line of argument...
...Yale team was composed of H. G. Rowell, H. H. Thompson, and Basil Davenport, while E. C. Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27 represented Harvard. Professor I. S. Winter, Professor Emeritus of Public Speaking at Harvard, was the chairman of the debate, and Professor C. Edmund Neil, of Boston University, Mr. James E. King, of the Boston Transcript editorial staff, and the Reverend William R. Leslie, of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Brookline, were the judges...
...Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27, with George Slaff '26, and A. F. Reel '28 as alternates. Of these Dickson is the only one who spoke in the triangular debates last year. The Yale team is composed of H. G. Rowell, H. H. Thomas, Basil Davenport, and H. G. Hayes, alternate...
...winter, Henry Gardiner Symonds, of Hinsdale, Illinois, Sidney A. Swenrud, of Northwood, Iowa, Osgood Stevens Lovekin, of Riversdale, California, have been elected, and from the regular class which entered last September, Edmund Philip Learned, of Lawrence, Kansas, Harry Gay Anderson, of Waterbury, Conn., and Henry Traugott Dunker '25, of Davenport, Iowa...