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...college to up & move. In its early days, Yale was successively located at Killingworth and Saybrook, Conn.; Brown, in Warren and Providence, R. I. Dartmouth jumped from Connecticut to New Hampshire. Columbia has thrice moved northward in Manhattan. Colby has lived for 113 years on the banks of the Kennebec, long enough to feel nervous about pulling stakes. Here studied many a famed educator: Dean Shailer Mathews of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago; many a college professor; 38 U. S. college presidents (among them, oldtime presidents of Vassar, Michigan, Rochester, Centre, Colgate, Cincinnati; and Colby...
...dynamite the new yacht on the ways made the officials of the Iron Works uncomfortable; they kept the crowd outside the fence. Mrs. Nichols hit the bow of the Corsair IV with a bottle of 1915 champagne donated by the Iron Works. The Corsair IV slid perfectly into the Kennebec River, where it floated nicely. In the excitement one Fred Meillieux, employe of the Iron Works, fell off a 40-ft. roof...
...name of Tibbetts, a short time since, jumped into eternity and the Kennebec River at one and the same time! Cause, intemperance...
...Shakespearian swashbuckling (crowned by France). Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage. As a matter of principle, Carrie at length enters objection, threatens exposure; Babe submits; Carrie, principle gained, withdraws objection. One scene stages the home-watched coffin...
...Kennebec Salmon, Shrimp Sauce...