Word: haven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiftieth anniversary of the Yale News is an occasion worthy of even more recognition than the many felicitations which have already poured into New Haven from all over the world. Not only among those statemen who are interested in college men--President Coolidge and Chief Justice Taft being among the congratulators nor among the brethren of the metropolitan journalists--from whom the greetings included the London Times, the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Tokyo Advertiser--is this an anniversary full of gratification. In the very forefront of well-wishers is the college journalist, who sees in this long and distinguished...
...haven't given any indication as to the Presidential candidacy. . . . I have not intimated to any one what I plan to do in the convention. I am not obliged to take any position. There is luck in leisure"?Andrew Mellon...
...Burnham scouted the idea of romance with the young man, said she does not intend to marry him or anyone else. She has wealth, will rear Vera in the name of eugenics. Mrs. Burnham's relatives and father, Dr. Max Mailhouse of New Haven, Conn., were reported to be "harmonious with the situation." Professor Ellsworth Huntington of Yale, geographer, whose hobby is eugenics, said: "From a purely scientific standpoint, it was the correct thing for her [Mrs. Burnham] to do, although there is some doubt that it was best from a social standpoint." The public, shocked at the thought...
Married. Miss Louise Hunter, prima donna of Golden Dawn, current light opera in Manhattan; to Henry Haven Winsor Jr., of Evanston, ill., wealthy publisher of Popular Mechanics; in Manhattan...
...innumerable "sloppy and maudlin" books foisted annually on the public. The Nation agrees but points out that even at Yale faculty members was prolix with superlatives and too often lose touch with the active world of letters. Time was, recalls the magazine, when a professor of English at New Haven "snubbed the most vital living authors in order to sing in extravagant terms the praises of an innocuous and now almost forgotten novelist, Henry Sydner Harrison". And the years which have passed since the author of "Queed" was popular have brought equally significant and disappointing parallels...