Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huskies have six experienced men ready for the Indoor Athletic Building clash, headed by flashy Bob Gurney at forward and footballer Jim Connolly. Eric Almstrom and Lou Smith will share the pivot duties, and Bob Toucey pairs with Tom Gleason at the guard positions...
George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, yesterday afternoon opened the Francis Bergen series of lectures at Yale...
...Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, with a heard as "pure as driven snow," Kitty retired in 1935. His "English 2: Six Plays" was one of the most famous courses in the country, and the mid-year and final exams with their long memory question and 60 to 70 "spot" passages were the terror of generations. During his reign he insisted on "Shakspere" as the correct spelling. His students will never forget the pearl gray fiannel suit he invariably wore, the glasses that flew up his lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his pungent injunctions against coughing...
Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, last night begged off from a more complete statement in view of the fact that he was in the midst of making up the History I exam, but did say that "he thought it was a crying shame that so many good men were excluded from the Houses...
...shouting "Hell, boy, where's the water-hole?" When the votes were tallied, Mr. Hitchcock came in a bad third, behind a Congressman named Fred Hildebrandt, leaving Rooseveltian Mr. Berry with nothing between himself and the Senate but the November elections. His Republican opponent will be Chandler Gurney-who lost a close Senate race in 1936, campaigning over a radio station which he operates himself...