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Wilson Harris
HARRIS, (Theodore) Wilson Nationality: British. Born: New Amsterdam, British Guiana, now Guyana, 24 March 1921. Education: Queen's College, Georgetown. Family: Married 1) Cecily Carew in 1945; 2) Margaret Whitaker in 1959. Career: Government surveyor in the 1940s, and senior surveyor,... Read more |
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Joanna Russ
RUSS, Joanna Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 22 February 1937. Education: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, B.A. 1957; Yale University School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut, M.F.A. 1960. Family: Married Albert Amateau in 1963 (divorced 1967). Career: Lecturer in Speech,... Read more |
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Yale University
Yale University at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was finally moved to its permanent... Read more |
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Princeton University
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Founded in 1746 by religious reformers, Princeton University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States. The fourth oldest school in the nation, Princeton's founders decided to establish the school after Harvard and Yale... Read more |
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University of New Brunswick
University of New Brunswick at Fredericton, N.B., Canada; nondenominational; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1800 as the College of New Brunswick, called King's College by royal charter 1828, achieved university status 1859. The university has a graduate school and... Read more |
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Syracuse University
Syracuse University main campus at Syracuse, N.Y.; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1871. Syracuse is noted for its research programs in government and industry; facilities include the Center for Science and Technology, the Newhouse Communications Center, and the CASE Center for advanced... Read more |
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Arnold Lucius Gesell
Gesell, Arnold Lucius (b. Alma, Wisconsin, 21 June 1880; d. New Haven, Connecticut, 29 May 1961) psychology. Trained in pedagogy, psychology, and medicine, Gesell developed a systematic program of research in human growth and development during many years of work with normal and problem children... Read more |
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Ivy League
IVY LEAGUE IVY LEAGUE was coined in 1937 by a newspaper columnist to describe football competition at ivy-covered northeastern universities. The term came to identify eight prestigious private American universities that admit less than 20 percent of their applicants and require an academically... Read more |
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Blake and Homosexuality.(Book Review)
...Hobson. New York: Palgrave...Blake and Homosexuality Christopher...representation of homosexuality, in that...vols. [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981...the image shows two men ... |
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Yale puts focus on its gay past.
...mater, Yale University _ a great...Gay Life at Yale and Connecticut...institution of Yale's caliber...since its opening in February...love." The show profiles...executed in New Haven in 1646 ... |