All posts tagged "UNH"
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14.3KConnecticutWhat 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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9.6KArts and LeisureThe Miraculous Rescue of Dorothy Sparks in 1942
On July 20, 1942, Dorothy Sparks went for a cookout with friends in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. The plan was to grill...
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16.2K1Arts and LeisureSix Epic College Pranks
College pranks have been part of the college experience since at least the 13th century, when Oxford students sent a prostitute to...
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6.9K5Arts and LeisureThe Carnegie Libraries of New England
Three Carnegie libraries had their cornerstones laid in one day, but those were only a fraction of the tycoon-funded libraries in New...
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31.3K6Arts and LeisurePeyton Place – A Town, Its Scandals and the Woman Who Told the World
The dirty novel Peyton Place landed like a bombshell in 1956, a surprise hit by an unknown author. The critics panned it, the...
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11.1K5Arts and LeisureEleanor Estes Assuages Her Childhood Guilt
When Eleanor Estes was growing up in West Haven, Conn., her classmates mocked a Polish girl who wore the same hand-me-down dress...
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