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...losing side of the ledger, Winthrop absorbed the worst drubbing as Pierson College suddenly sprang to life in the second half to score 26 points while holding the Deacons scoreless. A desperate Puritan drive in the last moments of play backfired with an 85-yard return of a pass interception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champion Eliot Downs Saybrook as Houses Win Three, Lose Four, Tie | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Davemport started to drive late in its game with Winthrop and tallied three times in the second half to rout the visitors. A tremendous Puritan drive in the final minutes of play ended in disaster with an 85-yard return of a pass interception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Grid Champ as Houses Win Three, Lose Four to Yale | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

Dick Meussel, filling in at quarterback for sore-armed Dave McGiffert, sparked the late push, tossing two long passes to Dave Abbot to bring the ball from his own 20 to the puritan 16, and then handing off to George Golphin who swept left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mastodons Down Winthrop 12-0 to Clinch Grid Title | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...raise money for the building. Started in 1804, the new Stoughton Hall was completed a year later, and officially named in 1806. It watched the years flow by gracefully, housing Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, until the night of December 15, 1870, when its prim, Puritan peace was disturbed by the explosion of a bomb under the floor of Room...

Author: By S. W. G., | Title: Circling the Square | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...will certainly live. One is the concept of "kiths," a main feature of his book. Huntington defined a kith as "a group of people relatively homogeneous in language and culture, and freely intermarrying with one another." He traced the careers of many influential kiths, including the Jews, the Puritan New Englanders, the Mongols, the Hakkas of South China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Alert Professor | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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