Word: rainey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under its first president, William Rainey Harper, the school that John D. Rockefeller had founded in 1891 with a $600,000 gift (and which John D. had originally thought of as just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result...
Campaigning ended last night when the signs in the Union came down and the freshman spirits went up with the appearance of singer Pat Rainey, magician Sammy Lyman, and pianist Larry Eanet. Various candidates sponsored the entertainers, along with a beer raffle displays...
...hours last night some 700 freshmen decorously watched 11 assorted acts move across the Sanders Theater stage in the entertainment half of the Freshman Smoker. The minute the last performer--singer Pat Rainey--finished her routine, the 700 poured into Memorial Hall and proceeded to create the riot scene they had heard from upperclassmen was characteristic of Freshman Smokers...
Torch singer Pat Rainey made the biggest impression on the assembled Yardlings. Her renditions of "Ay, Ay, Ay, I'll Love You Till I Die," "Cuanta La Gusta," "I Love You Yes I Do," and three other songs had her audience cheering and shouting...
Clarinetist Ed Hall, who is currently at the Savoy, and several follow musicians headline a series of eight entertainment acts. Pat Rainey, former vocalist at the Campus Room and now at the Hotel Fensgate; Marie McDonald, not "The Body" but a New England Tributary Theater singer, and Eric Victor, from the cast of the musical revue "Inside U. S. A." are the other professional performers who will be on hand...