All posts tagged "Yale"
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4.9KArts and LeisureFootball’s Death Harvest of 1905, or How Teddy Roosevelt Saved the Grid Game
Teddy Roosevelt loved the rough-and-tumble of football the way college athletes played it back in 1895. He even wrote a letter saying...
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2.4KNew HampshireDartmouth Starts a Campus Navy in World War II
Eighteen-year-old George Berkowitz, wearing his brand-new Marine uniform, lined up in military order with his Dartmouth College classmates and awaited his orders....
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4.0KConnecticutNew Haven’s Center Church Crypt, the Puritan City of the Dead
In the basement of an old Congregational church on New Haven Green lies a small city of the dead. One hundred thirty...
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5.4KBusiness and LaborCrazy Henry Baldwin, the Mentally Ill Supreme Court Justice
In the history of the United States, only 120 people have served on the Supreme Court. Some suffered from mental illness. Henry...
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10.6KBusiness and LaborA.C. Gilbert, The Man Who Saved Christmas (and Invented the Erector Set)
In 1918, America was at war. The country needed to devote all of its industrial might to victory in Europe. A war...
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6.4KArts and LeisureSamuel Morse Paints 38 Masterpieces (And Then Invents the Telegraph)
Samuel Morse as a young man wanted nothing more than to be an artist, an aspiration upon which his Puritan parents frowned....
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