Word: farnum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first New Haven settlers whose colony he has studied, he graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) at 21, published his first book, The River Towns' of Connecticut at 26 while associate professor of history at Bryn Mawr, married six years later, taught at Johns Hopkins before he became Farnum Professor of American History at Yale in 1910. In his office in the Hall of Graduate Studies and at his New Haven home Professor Andrews turns out his histories in longhand, while his wife goes over his writing before publication, sometimes edits a volume with him. Last month his son, John...
...riot when some 600 Boston husbands took exception to the distribution of prizes. Last week, loafers on the Common waited hopefully but the knitting bee caused no trouble even when the judges awarded one of the six prizes to a man. He was bald, tidy, dignified John Farnum Cann. His contribution - all the knitters made little chunks which were later pinned together in a large U. S. flag - was a red stripe...
...fair candidate for the title of No. 1 U. S. male knitter, John Farnum Cann, unlike the Prince of Wales who took up knitting during the War but soon gave it up for polo, has knitted all his life. He learned 56 years ago when, at the age of 10 in Yarmouth. N. S., his mother found that his five brothers and two sisters wore out their stockings faster than she could supply them. From stockings, Knitter Cann progressed to sweaters, caps, and fancy afghans. He grew up, married a girl who liked to knit, adopted the profession of male...
Pooling of the British and the United States naval forces in the Far East was advocated last night by Samuel Flagg Bemis, Farnum Professor of Diplomatic History at Yale, in an address given to the Eliot House History Club...
...Toward an Anglo-American Agreement," forms the subject of an address which Professor Samuel Flagg Bemis, Farnum Professor of Diplomatic History at Yale, will give in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House tonight...