Word: denison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those less team minded, there is Weld Boat House with its wherries, camps, and singles. Expert Blake Denison is on hand to coach the landlubber. This sport, less popular in the short, often frigid aurum season, comes into its own in the spring...
...ensemble work and how to play quietly. While the former's "Persian Rug" is quite restrained, it still has some bursts of that inimitable Teagarden trombone. Bobby Hackett's "Sunrise Sercuade" is a beautifully restrained affair that fits down to the last note--highly recommended . . . "Wizzin' The Wizz" and "Denison Swing," supposedly featuring the rather tiresome but flashy two fingered piano of Lionel Hampton, really shows the fine drumming of Cozy Cole and sax by Chu Berry . . . "Shangri-La" (Les Brown) has some unusual and beautiful changes, though it sounds somewhat like "Chant of the Weed...
...Chicagoan of the vintage of 1888 by birth, Professor Mather did not come to Harvard till 1924. After his graduation from Denison University (Granville, Ohio), he taught geology at Arkansas, Chicago, Queen's (Kingston, Ontario), and Denison, acquiring during this time a wife and three daughters. Since becoming professor of Geology here in 1927 he has made himself one of the most popular lecturers as well as partaken in Boston civic activities...
Amelia Earhart and her mother went east in a canary-colored automobile. The young girl again studied at Columbia and at Harvard Summer School. She got into social service work, teaching soiled urchins at South Boston's old Denison House. One day the telephone rang and a voice asked her if she would go along as a passenger on a transatlantic airplane flight. The sponsor of the project thought it would be good publicity to take a woman along. Amelia said at once that she would...
...research associate of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, and a member of numerous societies. He has received honorary degrees from Denison University, and the University of Wisconsin...