All posts tagged "education"
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2.5KConnecticutJoseph Brant, Mohawk Leader, Goes to Dartmouth (Before It Was Dartmouth)
On Aug. 1, 1761, three teenaged Mohawk boys arrived on horseback at Moor’s Charity School in Lebanon (now Columbia), Conn. Two, Nickus...
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9.7KConnecticutWhat the Insider’s Guide to Colleges in New England Said in 1972
In 1972, undergraduates at the Yale Daily News published The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, an entertaining but blatantly sexist description of...
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8.9KConnecticutA Daughter of the Puritans Leads a Life of Secret Terror
A daughter of the Puritans led two lives. One, a happy ordinary life of a New England girl filled with school, friends,...
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7.0KConnecticutWhy Glenn Miller Has a Memorial Stone in a New Haven Cemetery
Swing bandleader Glenn Miller was born in Iowa, grew up in the Midwest, got famous in New York City, lived in New...
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11.6K2Arts and LeisureThe Real People Behind Little Women
A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still...
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6.9KConnecticutSeven Fun Facts About Taxes
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun — well,...
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