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Word: silliman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reign as president was not a glamourous one. Though he did build Silliman College and raise the Yale endowment another $16 million, he made internal matters his main concern. He placed the major disciplines-the sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts and medicine -under divisional (not merely departmental) directors, reorganized the Sheffield Scientific School, strengthened Yale's Institute of International Studies, and to the horror of many a student, introduced a required reading program for summer vacations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Old Blue | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...pound class--Silliman (W) decisioned Kozol (H), 11-4; 128-pound class-- Smith (H) pinned Berkman (W) with a body press in 7:22; 136-pound class-- Wach (H) decisioned Hoover (W), 5-3; 145-pound class--Stemler (W) decisioned King (II), 3-0; 155-pound class-Jones (II) decisioned Dolth (W), 5-1; 165-pound class--Ray (H) pinned Register (W) with a half nelson and body press in 2:06; 175-pound class--Louria (H) decisioned Keller (W), 10-6; Unlimited class--Houston (H) pinned Welsh (W) with a chancery...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wesleyan Bows, 24-6, To Varsity Wrestlers | 12/15/1948 | See Source »

...other House-College football games, the Bulldogs emerged victorious, though often over stiff opposition. Yale won the touch football crown as Silliman swamped Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Silliman College's touch football team just had too much for Kirkland yesterday, as the Yale champions completed wrecked their Harvard equivalent by a 60 to 0 count. In the only other touch football game of the afternoon. Yale's Timothy Dwight whipped Leverett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Freshmen--Yale 2 p.m. Junior Varsity--Yale 2 p.m. Kirkland--Berkeley 2:30 p.m. Ellot--Jonathan Edwards 2:30 p.m. Winthrop--Davenport 3:15 p.m. Lowell--Trumbull 3:15 p.m. Dunster--Calhoun 2 p.m. Adams--Saybrook 2 p.m. Leverett--Timothy Dwight 3:15 p.m. Dudley--Branford 2 p.m. Kirkland--Silliman (touch) 2:30 pm. Leverett--Timothy Dwight (touch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Wave of Blue | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

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