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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...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam and Winthrop Knowlton, S | Title: Harvard Gets Yale Through 250 Historic Years | 10/19/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge D.A. Reports End of Study of Law Student's Death | 5/25/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vocation of a Benedictine | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Nine Will Meet Dartmouth, Princeton; Hoping for Split | 5/11/1951 | See Source »

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