Word: morgantowners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-five years ago last week the football team of West Virginia University met the Michigan team of Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost at Ann Arbor. When the West Virginians returned home the Daily New Dominion of Morgantown interviewed them and reported...
Last year Manhattan's famed Progressive Lincoln School sent a group of 16-year-olds to the coal fields of Morgantown, W. Va., to learn how the other half lived. After exploring coal mines and living with Morgantown high-school youngsters for ten days, Lincoln's students returned to Manhattan to ponder what they had seen, gain two years in understanding and thinking power, by scientific tests (TIME, Oct. 31). Thereupon Lincoln School and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which financed the trip, decided to find out whether their educational experiment would work as well in reverse. Last...
...coal miners' children (ambitious to be doctors, lawyers, businessmen, teachers, actresses), the nine Morgantown boys and four girls, aged 16-19, had, with three exceptions, never seen a big city. First stop after they left their strike-bound coal fields was Washington, where they were bedded in a tourist camp, rose at 4:30 to begin sightseeing, ended the day marveling at how little work Congressmen did to earn their...
...subway to Wall Street, visited other business districts, the Aquarium, Bellevue Hospital (which awed them), Radio City, headquarters of the Consolidation (Rockefeller) Coal Co. (which owns some of their mines). In rapid succession during the next six days, pausing only to eat and take a few winks of sleep, Morgantown's children rode a tug around New York Harbor, where the girls hallooed at sailors on U. S. warships, inspected the Europa, bridges, power plants, tenements, museums, topped a whole day of sightseeing with a whole night of prowling through riverfront markets...
...MORGANTOWN, West Vs. Students of West Virginia University "severed relations" with Germany in a full-page editorial in the campus newspaper, "The Daily Athenaeum," after being termed "impudent, shameless, and sillly" by "Das Schwarze Korps," Nazi storm troop organ...