All posts tagged "Holy Cross"
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14.0KConnecticutWhat the Insider’s Guide to the 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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8.2K3MassachusettsTimothy Leary Gets the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act Overturned
Timothy Leary found out just how screwy America’s cannabis laws were when he got busted for violating the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act....
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8.7K1bostonJean-Louis Cheverus, the Catholic Priest Even the Puritans Liked
Boston, today that most Catholic of American cities, had no Catholic church within 300 miles when Father Jean-Louis Lefebvre Cheverus arrived in...
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25.4K8Crime and ScandalThe Kid Wrongly Blamed for the Cocoanut Grove Fire
Stanley Tomaszewski was a 16-year-old busboy working on the night of the Cocoanut Grove fire, Nov. 28, 1942, the Saturday after Thanksgiving....
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14.0K2Arts and LeisureLouis Sockalexis, The Indian Athlete With the Tragic Flaw
Louis Sockalexis broke a different color barrier in baseball 50 years before Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a...
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13.2K3MassachusettsJoseph T. O’Callahan, A Claustrophobic Priest, Wins the Medal of Honor in WWII
Father Joseph T. O’Callahan left his classroom at Holy Cross College to enlist in the U.S. Naval Reserve as the United States...
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