Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Royal, Virginia, a new type of university, a "depression college" is being established to off-set the present unemployment of college professors and restricted finances of students. In its two manor houses and town hall, it will take care of about one hundred students and twenty teachers. Idyllic as it may sound, hunting and fishing are to be substituted for other sports and will help to provide food. Because it will be to a large measure self-supporting the students will not pay more than two hundred and fifty dollars a year. Further the "depression college" will enable...
...Fief and Manor," Assistant Professor Taylor, Emerson...
...Pelham Manor, N. Y., Carl Percy advertised in the magazine Stamps that he would swap a nine-room colonial house for a satisfactory stamp collection. The house originally cost about $28,000, has a $16,000 mortgage...
Election of eight men to the board of the Lampoon, humorous undergraduate publication, was announced last night. The men elected are: Heywood Fox '33 of Pelham Manor, New York, L. T. Wing '35 of Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and J. deB. Bertolet '35 of Reading, Pennsylvania to the Literary Board; Vincent Palmer '35 of Milton and W. H. Lewis, Jr. '35 of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey to the Art Board; and R. B. Murray '34 of Hampstead, Maryland, H. T. Pierpont, Jr. '35 of Worcester, and W. G. Barker, 2d '35 of Brookline to the Business Board...
John Jacob Raskob sold his million-dollar estate "Archmere" on the Dela ware River at Claymont, Del. to the Premonstratensian Fathers of St. Norbert College, Depere, Wis. A show place with a palatial manor house in which are five nurseries, the property will be made into a boys' preparatory school, named Archmere Academy. For a year the Raskobs have resided at their Centreville, Md. place. There the family occupies "Heart felt Hall." On the outside, beneath the window of each of the twelve children's rooms, is a medallion bearing the likeness of the occupant. The guest house...