Word: silliman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after his father's death, wrote an authoritative history of Connecticut Indians at 25, spent two years in the Near East and Europe (where he translated Hawthorne into Italian) before he was 30, wrote two travel books and two reasonably successful novels. In 1856 he married Harriet Silliman Shepard and for the next few years divided his time between New Haven and Charleston, S. C. When Sumter was fired on he escaped from Charleston on the last ship going north, recruited a Connecticut company, captained it, served under Weitzel and Banks in Louisiana, under Sheridan in Virginia...
Financed by the late Frederick W. Vanderbilt, Yale University plans to erect early next spring a new addition to the nine residential college now standing. The structure will be called Silliman College, after the famous Yale scientist of the first part of the 19th contury...
Similar to the Harvard House Plan, Yale's college plan formulated in 1928 and financed by Edward S. Harkness, donor of the Harvard buildings, will be completed by the addition of Silliman. At present, there is raging in New Haven a controversy over the architectural appearance of the projected unit. The Yale Daily News, in an editorial printed Friday, cried "Save Silliman...
...According to Plans... Silliman College would have a handsome brick front facing the Georgian-federalist Timothy Dwight, tapering off to a forbidding-looking Gothic prison facade to match the present Van-Sheff unit," says the News."... Would that it were possible for Yale to build her latest... in accordance with functional requirements, instead of again indulging in her quaint whims such as that of a gymnasium designed as a medieval fortress or a library as a cathedral...
...dispatch yesterday from the News revealed that speculation must continue to run riot on Silliman's structural possibilities, for even the building architects, Messrs. Eggers and Higgins, successors to the late great John Russell Pope, were unable to shed any light towards a solution of this mystery...