Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman sextet will play Andover in the Arena at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The first year men will give Andover one of its best battles of the winter. Undefeated, and having beaten Belmont Hill 12 to 0, St. Mark's 1 to 0, and Milton Academy 3 to 0 recently, the Crimson Freshmen are now approaching the peak of their form in team-play and condition. They are favored to win over the Andover sextet because of the latter's 1 to 1 tie with Belmont...
Forty-seven years ago, in June, Helen Adams Keller was born, at Tuscumbia, Ala. For a year and a half she was a healthy and good natured little absurdity; then, in her second winter, some jealous deity reached out his hand toward Helen Keller. She had an illness, "acute congestion of the stomach and brain"; afterward she was as deaf and as blind as an idol. For five years, "a peevish, unmanageable little animal," she squirmed in the horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon...
...dark, amid the blaze of noon, irrevocably dark, total eclipse without all hope of day," she could pity Milton, "upbraiding the world in high astounding terms," whose "light was spent ere half his days." She could doubt, in her heart, that it was a Nemesis who, that faraway, forgotten winter, had laid his hand upon her eyes. She could sense, perhaps, a certain graciousness, a certain ironic but charming delicacy in the fate which permitted Helen Keller who had been deaf and blind almost since her birth to read, last week, the story of a compan- ion pioneer...
...time women students at Columbia exceeded men in the university's total of 34,997. And last week two new colleges undertook to specialize in fitting women for strenuous modern life. Rich men's daughters assembled at Webber College, Babson Park, Florida. There they will spend the winter, learn to administer estates, specialize in the care of securities, real estate, hope to attain the degree of "B.B."-bachelor of business. Business men who sent their daughters included: Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Statistician, Prudential Insurance Co. of America; W. E. Betteridge, President of Lakeside Biscuit Co., Toledo; Thomas...
Died. William du Pont, 72, retired, one of the chief owners of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; at his winter home, near Brunswick...