Word: fessenden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Yalemen an ideal place to found preparatory schools. In 1893 Horace Dutton Taft (Yale 1883). tall, spare brother of the 27th President, settled himself and 30 pupils in an old resort hotel at Watertown as the Taft School for boys. Thirty-seven years later brown-haired Paul Fessenden Cruikshank (Yale 1920) went ten miles west to found Romford School in Washington, Conn. Big Taft and small Romford have each enjoyed a notable success. This week 330 Taft boys from all over the U. S. returned from their vacations to find Yaleman Taft gone, Yaleman Cruikshank in his place...
Appointed. Paul Fessenden Cruikshank, 37, founder and headmaster of Romford School (Washington, Conn.); to succeed Horace Button Taft, 74, as headmaster of Taft School (TIME, Dec. 31); in Watertown, Conn...
...touched off other incidents last week as Chinese all over China roused one another against the Japanese menace. Mobs in Shanghai stoned Japanese stores and 150,000 Chinese fled the Chinese quarter of Shanghai into the International Settlement, ruled by Occidentals under a U. S. citizen. Secretary General Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Municipal Council. What chiefly irritated Japanese last week was the curt announcement of the Occidental police of the International Settlement that the Japanese marine's uncaught murderer seems also to have been wearing a Japanese marine uniform...
...hard she could not play against Princeton. Score: Yale 4, Yassar 0. Next day in the Princeton game a Vassar player had the wind knocked out of her, gamely resumed play. Sticks were broken, roughness was about equal on both sides. Miss Virginia Fessenden, umpire, accused Princeton of violating every principle of the game. Princeton won. 5-to-2. Tea was served following both games...
Died. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, 65, physicist and inventor; of heart disease; in Hamilton, Bermuda. He pioneered the development of radio telephony, was credited with inventing the radio-compass, electrically-driven battleships, numerous submarine safety devices...