Word: vinton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smart father, the late famed President James Burrill Angell of the University of Michigan. Poor Columbia University, whose student fees pay only 40% of its maintenance cost, received only $80,000 donations through its alumni fund last year. In order to provide against future impoverishment, William Vinton King, Chairman of the Board of the Columbia Trust Co., Manhattan, and a life member of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University, has willed a tithe (one-tenth) of his estate, after death, to Columbia and last week urged, almost demanded that other alumni do the same. Raze. "The women...
...presidency of the local chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is not listed by actuaries as an especially dangerous occupation. Yet Mrs. C. B. Cook of Vinton, Ia., found it so. She became an active Prohibition crusader, aiding and abetting enforcement agents in every way. Then the grim train of events began. One Sunday evening returning home from services at the First Christian Church, she found her house defaced with fragments of more than a dozen putrescent eggs. Next day she had the egg stains removed and, undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home...
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...following caption accompanied a picture of Vinton Chapin '23, in the Photographic Weekly of the Daily Princetonian for January 17: "Vinton Chapin, recently elected captain of Harvard's 1925 eleven. He plays half-back, is an adept receiver of the forward pass, and an excellent open field runner...
...approved by the athletic board are the track, hockey, and baseball bodies. The regular members of the track committee are W. A. Barron '14, chairman, W. J. Bingham '16, R. C. Floyd '11, H. S. Grew '24, and A. T. Lyman '16. The associate members of this committee are Vinton Chapin '23, H. L. Clark '87, and C. G. Krogness...