Word: yales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Marquis Lippi Gerini, of Florence, Italy; to Miss Lillian Madelyn Poli, 26, daughter of Sylvester Z. Poli, immigrant-to-millionaire theatre man;* in New Haven, Conn. Five Yale footballers and Swimmers Helen Meaney and Aileen Riggin were recruited for the bridal party. Firemen and State Troopers assisted New Haven police in controlling the 2,000 guests...
Died. William Whitman Farnam, 85, of New Haven, Conn., Yale graduate (1866), onetime Yale University Treasurer; in New Haven...
...Commissioner of Education, keynoted. Avoiding mention of Prohibition he pleaded for an undogmatic reorganizing of U. S. education, pointed to the "inevitable responsibilities which progress imposes upon education." He suggested more experimental education, commended the Experimental College at Wisconsin, the house-plan at Harvard, the segregated Freshman plan at Yale, the year-abroad-for-Romance-language-students at Smith, the Antioch plan of combining in five-or-ten-week shifts study and business or professional work. Lastly he pleaded for "individuality in a world steadily being leveled by standardization...
...Hammond did not have his tactful partner aboard last week, but no similar emergency arose as the Nina won another great race, 475 miles from New London, Conn., to Gibson Island, Md. Twoscore other yachts sailed out of New London in a dripping fog the day after the Harvard-Yale crew race. During that thick night the Teragram missed the stern of Malabar VIII by a scant six feet. Then came clear weather, smooth sailing. Sachem and Nina, the first two yachts around Montauk Point, got the best wind after the turn. The Nina came in seven hours behind...
Golf. U. S. Open Championship-Won by Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; at Mamaroneck, N. Y. (see p. 55). Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Thomas Aycock, Yale University; at Deal, N. J. Intercollegiate Team Championship-Won by Princeton University; at Deal. Tennis. Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Berkeley Bell, University of Texas; at Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa.* Women's Intercollegiate Championship†-Won by Marjorie Gladman, University of Southern California; at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club. U. S. Army Championship-Won by Maj. Robert C. Van Vliet, infantryman, Panama Canal Zone (three-time title holder); at Washington's Columbia...