Word: haven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Intelligence, however, gags at the off-quoted New Haven aphorism: Princeton boys, Harvard scholars, Yale men, though heretofore it has seemed to many impossible thoroughly to do anything intellectual without assuming the title of scholar. It is doubtful if the amount of independent research work done in any undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything...
...automobile moved swiftly down Livingston St., New Haven, Conn., one morning last week, crashed into and wrecked another automobile which had appeared suddenly out of a side street. Two men got out of the first car. Came a policeman, who was surprised when one of the men handed him a driver's license reading: "John Coolidge, age 21, height 6 ft., residence 21 Massasoit St., Northampton, Mass." The other man was William Cunningham, chauffeur of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut. But John Coolidge, returning from a visit to his mother and the Governor in Plainville, Conn., had been driving...
John Coolidge answered police questions, then went to his work as clerk at the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. When news of the accident reached Washington, D. C., President Coolidge despatched his personal physician, Major James F. Coupal, to New Haven to attend the Venos. Also to New Haven went Col. Edward W. Starling of the Secret Service to watch over John Coolidge. Only a week before, for the first time in three years, John Coolidge had been allowed to go about without a Secret Service...
...President's son has been under watchful eyes in New Haven. He is living at the home of Professor Benjamin Wisner Bacon, 68, staunch Congregationalist, who has recently retired from the faculty of the Yale Divinity School. Host Bacon is an authority on the New Testament. He has written a good-sized shelf of books on the subject.* Big of frame, he used to play football and the violin, equally well, as a Yale undergraduate. John Coolidge has been invited to stay under the Bacon roof (No. 244 Edwards St.) as long as he desires. It is 20 minutes...
Plans have been definitely formulated for the Glee Club's fall season. The high spots are the concert in conjunction with the Yale Glee Club in New Haven the night before the football game, and the appearances in Symphony Hall...