Word: grad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national weekly magazine, reporting Benedict's bequest, referred to him as a "typical, obscure, sentimental old grad," and declared that he had become bored with the practice of law at 38 and retired soon afterwards. He lived on until his death at the age of 89, leading an essentially quiet life, dividing his time, according to the four seasons of the year, between Pittsfield. Boston, Washington, and an annual trip abroad, together with occasional journeys to see the Yale teams perform...
Donor of Yale's windfall was Edward Benedict Cobb, a typical, obscure, sentimental old grad. Inheriting nearly $3,000,000 from his family (who had owned 300 acres in the heart of Tarrytown. N. Y. since Revolutionary times), Benedict Cobb went to Yale in 1868, played on his class chess team, made Psi Upsilon, was elected a class officer in his senior year. After his graduation in 1872, he got a law degree at Columbia and practiced law in Manhattan for twelve years. At 38, bored with the law, he retired and married a Yaleman's sister, Alice...
...Euclid. The College has not fallen in with the parade of modern big-time intercollegiate athletics, it still has a rule against drinking, it proudly rejected the National Youth Administration's offer of aid to its students. But even Hamilton, on whose board of trustees sits Old Grad Alexander Woollcott, as well as Elihu Root Jr., has made some concessions to the times. Last year it dropped Latin and Greek as an entrance requirement, later abolished the fraternities' "Hell Week" (hazing of initiates). Last week it took as president a young man who stands with the reformers rather...
...Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer). "As long as you wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel Barrymore to the football squad in Navy Blue and Gold, "nobody cares greatly whether you win or lose. But Navy cares greatly how you play the game." How they play the game in this film, under the hipper-dipper cinema coaching of Hollywood Director Sam Wood, is enough to make...
...fact is that an elderly graduate got poor seats for 15 years. He was just an ordinary grad. He hadn't even made the Varsity Club by managing the badminton team or any other team, so he didn't get preferment...