Word: heyl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Hickling Bradford fellowship to Charles A. Janeway, New York City; John White Browne scholarship to Henry L. Heyl, New Canaan, Conn.; James Jackson Cabot fellowship to John H. Dingle 3M., Boston...
...gift-$158.000-surprised many people but pleased none more than it did a gentle, plump-faced old lady who helped in the campaign. Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison remembers the earliest days of the Institution. Her father. Lewis Miller, an Akron inventor, founded it with the help of Bishop John Heyl Vincent and there in 1885 Tom Edison paid court to Mina Miller. Later Inventor Edison be came honorary president of the Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle which for years scattered books for home reading over the marble-topped parlor tables of the land...
Died. Hedwig Crusemann Heyl, 84, ''Hindenburg of the Kitchen," pioneer German feminist and kindergarten sponsor; in Berlin. When her husband died in 1889 she flabbergasted her friends by assuming the management of his Charlottenburg dye works, ran it efficiently until her sons came of age, wrote Germany's most popular cookbook, The ABC of the Kitchen...
Chautauqua's site, beside Lake Chautauqua in New York's southwestern tip, was once a Methodist camp-meeting ground. In 1874 a Methodist circuit preacher named John Heyl Vincent and a pious Ohio inventor named Lewis Miller held a two-week institute for Sunday School teachers there. Both men were self-edu-cated, hungry for knowledge, eager to spread it. Within 1 5 years they had added schools of languages and music, started the famed Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle for home reading. Thus arose a unique conglomeration of religion, culture and fun which the late Theodore Roosevelt once...
While the orchestra plays appropriate theme songs Sweeney Todd (R. B. Clement '32) pursues his business of murder while Mrs. Lovett (R. T. Frescoln '34), next-door bakeshop proprietress, manufactures tuppenny pies out of the corpses. Mark Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they...