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...freshman "B" eleven overcame a 7 to 6 half-time deficit to defeat Governor Dummer Academy, 20 to 7, yesterday at South By field. This victory gives the "B" team a 500 record, with two wins, two losses...
...freshman 'B' eleven will try for its second win today against a slightly favored Governor Dummer team playing on its home field...
...freshman "B" football game with Governor Dummer Academy has been cancelled again, Coach Bob Margarita announced last night. Postponed last Saturday because of heavy rains, the contest was re-scheduled for today. The team members' heavy exam programs forced Margarita to cancel the game...
...Both Dummer and Mather, the two men who persuaded Elihu Yale to make his gift, were Harvard graduates. Dummer, in fact, was one reprimanded by a classmate for boasting that "in a little time that nursery Yale would exceed Harvard." As for Mather, he was president of Harvard at the time he was soliciting so strenuously for Yale. He never did quite get into the swing of things at Cambridge, however, once denouncing Harvard Commencements as "very expensive and the occasion of much...
...Year of Our Lord 1718 an affluent London merchant who had been born in the American colonies received several visits from a Bostonian named Jeremiah Dummer about a struggling institution of higher learning in Say-brook, Connecticut called The Collegiate School. These visits, along with some very persuasive letters from another Bostonian named Increase Mather, succeeded in convincing the London merchant to give a substantial donation to the small school, which was promptly named Yale College in his honor. Today that college celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding...