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Closed greeted enthusiastically the appearances of Head Coach Jerry Kanter, former Kilot football star Joks McNamara, and their illustrious founder Elihu Closed...
Three Open favorites put in personal appearances: head coach Dike Hyde former Kirkland player Slug Dolas, and Elihu Open himself...
Closed College was formed in 1718 by a group of clam-diggers and oystermen from Mystic, Conn., who were alarmed at the irresponsible radicalism exhibited by the other colleges of the day. Chief among the earlier contributions to the infant institution was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Closed, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the college in his honor...
...town of Sessamee by an association of maple sugar merchants of the Vermont region who felt a need for an institution of learning which would crystallize amorphous theories of colonial America into a rational pattern of individual conduct. Chief among the early gifts was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Open, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the infant school in his honor...
...Elihu Yale, whose name the budding institution took in 1718, bought himself a fair degree of immortality with a gift appraised at a little over 562 English pounds. He thought of the little Connecticut school, no doubt, as young and promising--as indeed...