Word: delander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Professor Emeritus Thomas Frederick ("Teefy") Crane, 83, who had been associated with Cornell University since 1868; at Deland, Fla. Undergraduates & alumni have chanted songs about "Teefy," and at each commencement hundreds of his former pupils have grasped his hand. Some years after his retirement, he delivered a rousing 45-minute midnight address before an alumni reunion. For two brief periods he was Acting President of Cornell...
After this, until Kennard kicked his goal in 1908, the Crimson flaunted over the Blue three times--in 1896, 1898, and 1901. The Harvardians instituted most of the new wrinkles in the games, but Yale had most of the power. The "Deland Flying Wedge" flew in 1892. This strange play was the terror of all comers, but Yale won the game because of involuntary foreign...
...football of the Mauve Decade that the brightest stars shone, and the greatest machines rolled over all opposition. The famous "Deland Flying Wedge" of Harvard was answered by the "Guards Back", devised by George Woodruff of Pennsylvania. From 1894 on, this formation crushed Harvard teams under foot for four years. By sheer force of weight and spirit the University elevens were able to keep the score low, but the Quakers always scored enough to take the game...
...street for the benefit of the Hearst International Reel Corp. . . . it is expected that the syndicate . . . will pay the fine." The fine was $5,000, imposed on Harold Elliston, onetime managing editor of the Baltimore Neivs who also faced a day in jail. Managing Editor Earl C. Deland of the Baltimore American was given a day's jailing; also City Editor Harry Clark of the News, and Photographers Sturm and Klemm...
Novelists Margaret Deland and Mary Austin pleaded, Mrs. Deland in person, for further study of life after death. She told how she had been converted to spiritualism by the ouija board and the inexplicable "residue" left in mediumistic trances after all cheating had been subtracted. Mrs. Austin's faith resulted from her studies of primitive American Indian customs and the behavior of animals at the approach of death...