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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign language-was brought to the U. S. by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who went to Europe in 1815 to study education of the deaf, and for whom Gallaudet College, founded in 1864 at Washington, was named. The Clarke School, founded in 1867, had as its first trustee-president the late famed Alexander Graham Bell, whose wife was deaf. It was while experimenting on sound-amplification to aid the deaf that Dr. Bell invented the telephone, in 1876. One Jeanie Lippitt, now Mrs. William B. Weeden of Providence, R. I., was the first U. S. deaf-mute child to regain speech...
...game in 1914 was the first Harvard-Yale game in the Yale Bowl, and the Crimson eleven came off with the honors, 36 to 0. Late in this tilt, it is stated, the onlookers were treated to the greatest exhibition of generalship ever seen on a football field. It was Harvard's ball within drop-kicking distance and Captain C.E. Brickley '15, injured and on the bench, was sent into the fray apparently to try for a goal from the field and the satisfaction of scoring against Yale in the year of his captaincy. Using Brickley as a decoy...
There are several unavoidable conditions which bring about this handicapping of distant candidates. Often the members of obscure high schools become interested in entering as Eastern college only late in their secondary course. A lack of friends and relatives with a background of collegiate experience makes it difficult to arrive at a decision that is a matter of natural sequence of boys brought up in closer touch with University traditions. As a result, the old plan of examination is out of the question and as a matter of fact seldom employed by this class of applicant...
...published last week. The title: The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893 (Lippincott, $1.50). Little known it still is that President Cleveland ("Grover the Good") developed cancer of his left jaw while he was stoutly persuading Congress to demonetize silver.* Dr. Keen, Dr. John Frederick Erdmann and the late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant and intimate friend) cut out the diseased bone during two operations. An artificial jaw of vulcanized rubber supported the cheek in the natural position and prevented it from falling in. So artful were the operations and so secretly done that...
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late famed hunter-President, sailed from Manhattan on the Homeric, with animals in mind. They plan to penetrate the unexplored lands along the Mekong River in Tibet, where, among other things, they will seek to capture a takin, rare ruminant, something like an antelope and something like a goat...