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...Year of Our Lord 1718 an affluent London merchant who had been born in the American colonies received several visits from a Bostonian named Jeremiah Dummer about a struggling institution of higher learning in Say-brook, Connecticut called The Collegiate School. These visits, along with some very persuasive letters from another Bostonian named Increase Mather, succeeded in convincing the London merchant to give a substantial donation to the small school, which was promptly named Yale College in his honor. Today that college celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding...
Married. Leonard Bernstein, 33, conductor and composer (Fancy Free ballet; the Jeremiah and Age of Anxiety symphonies); and Felicia Montealegre, 24, Chile-born TV actress; in Boston...
Cambridge District Attorney George E. Thompson announced yesterday that the investigation of the death of Jeremiah Brickman 2L had been completed with "no evidence of anything criminal...
From the shadows came the slow, profound chanting of Jeremiah's lament for Christ. Her attention was riveted on a Benedictine monk who might have been a figure in one of her own drawings today. "He had an air which did not please me, an aspect rough and terrible. He was wearing a strange, black costume-austere, and with lines that recalled an earlier, more primitive age-a pointed hood, a belt of leather. What end was he seeking? I wondered. The austere grandeur of his habit, of that belt which hung from his waist, somehow entangled my heart...
Coach Eddie Jeremiah relied heavily on experienced curve-baller Frank Logan early in the season, but last year's freshman ace, Pete MacKinnon, has turned into a top sophomore prospect. Either of these two may start against Harvard at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow...