Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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Colleges and universities named after individuals (and four-word bio)

  1. Oberlin College - J.F. Oberlin (Alsatian pastor and peacemaker)
  2. Wilfrid Laurier University - Sir Wilfred Laurier (seventh Canadian Prime Minister)
  3. Gonzaga University - St. Aloysius Gonzaga (died nursing plague victims)
  4. Haskell Indian Nations University - Dudley C. Haskell (Kansas Congressman, Indian Affairs)
  5. Rice University - William Marsh Rice (murdered Alger-esque Houstonian bequeather)
  6. Macalester College - Charles Macalester (Philadelphian philanthropist and businessman)
  7. Harvard University - John Harvard (English-born minister, generous benefactor)

Wow, Bayaker - I didn’t know that about Rice. Quite a tale: William Marsh Rice - Wikipedia

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Colleges and universities named after individuals (and four-word bio)

  1. Oberlin College - J.F. Oberlin (Alsatian pastor and peacemaker)
  2. Wilfrid Laurier University - Sir Wilfred Laurier (seventh Canadian Prime Minister)
  3. Gonzaga University - St. Aloysius Gonzaga (died nursing plague victims)
  4. Haskell Indian Nations University - Dudley C. Haskell (Kansas Congressman, Indian Affairs)
  5. Rice University - William Marsh Rice (murdered Alger-esque Houstonian bequeather)
  6. Macalester College - Charles Macalester (Philadelphian philanthropist and businessman)
  7. Harvard University - John Harvard (English-born minister, generous benefactor)
  8. Yale University - Elihu Yale (slave trader and philanthropist)
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Colleges and universities named after individuals (and four-word bio)

  1. Oberlin College - J.F. Oberlin (Alsatian pastor and peacemaker)
  2. Wilfrid Laurier University - Sir Wilfred Laurier (seventh Canadian Prime Minister)
  3. Gonzaga University - St. Aloysius Gonzaga (died nursing plague victims)
  4. Haskell Indian Nations University - Dudley C. Haskell (Kansas Congressman, Indian Affairs)
  5. Rice University - William Marsh Rice (murdered Alger-esque Houstonian bequeather)
  6. Macalester College - Charles Macalester (Philadelphian philanthropist and businessman)
  7. Harvard University - John Harvard (English-born minister, generous benefactor)
  8. Yale University - Elihu Yale (slave trader and philanthropist)
  9. Churchill College - Winston Churchill (notable British prime minister)
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Colleges and universities named after individuals (and four-word bio)

  1. Oberlin College - J.F. Oberlin (Alsatian pastor and peacemaker)
  2. Wilfrid Laurier University - Sir Wilfred Laurier (seventh Canadian Prime Minister)
  3. Gonzaga University - St. Aloysius Gonzaga (died nursing plague victims)
  4. Haskell Indian Nations University - Dudley C. Haskell (Kansas Congressman, Indian Affairs)
  5. Rice University - William Marsh Rice (murdered Alger-esque Houstonian bequeather)
  6. Macalester College - Charles Macalester (Philadelphian philanthropist and businessman)
  7. Harvard University - John Harvard (English-born minister, generous benefactor)
  8. Yale University - Elihu Yale (slave trader and philanthropist)
  9. Churchill College - Winston Churchill (notable British prime minister)
  10. Stanford University - Leland Stanford jr (died aged 15, typhoid)
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Colleges and universities named after individuals (and four-word bio)

  1. Oberlin College - J.F. Oberlin (Alsatian pastor and peacemaker)
  2. Wilfrid Laurier University - Sir Wilfred Laurier (seventh Canadian Prime Minister)
  3. Gonzaga University - St. Aloysius Gonzaga (died nursing plague victims)
  4. Haskell Indian Nations University - Dudley C. Haskell (Kansas Congressman, Indian Affairs)
  5. Rice University - William Marsh Rice (murdered Alger-esque Houstonian bequeather)
  6. Macalester College - Charles Macalester (Philadelphian philanthropist and businessman)
  7. Harvard University - John Harvard (English-born minister, generous benefactor)
  8. Yale University - Elihu Yale (slave trader and philanthropist)
  9. Churchill College - Winston Churchill (notable British prime minister)
  10. Stanford University - Leland Stanford jr (died aged 15, typhoid)
  11. Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, Kentucky - Alice Lloyd (radical suffregette and free-thinker)
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Colleges and universities named after individuals (and four-word bio)

  1. Oberlin College - J.F. Oberlin (Alsatian pastor and peacemaker)
  2. Wilfrid Laurier University - Sir Wilfred Laurier (seventh Canadian Prime Minister)
  3. Gonzaga University - St. Aloysius Gonzaga (died nursing plague victims)
  4. Haskell Indian Nations University - Dudley C. Haskell (Kansas Congressman, Indian Affairs)
  5. Rice University - William Marsh Rice (murdered Alger-esque Houstonian bequeather)
  6. Macalester College - Charles Macalester (Philadelphian philanthropist and businessman)
  7. Harvard University - John Harvard (English-born minister, generous benefactor)
  8. Yale University - Elihu Yale (slave trader and philanthropist)
  9. Churchill College - Winston Churchill (notable British prime minister)
  10. Stanford University - Leland Stanford jr (died aged 15, typhoid)
  11. Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, Kentucky - Alice Lloyd (radical suffragette and free-thinker)
  12. Loyola University - Ignatius of Loyola (soldier, saint, Jesuit founder)

There are 5 universities with this name: Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans, Congo and Andalusia, not connected except in being run by Jesuits. Also a Loyola College in Chennai, India

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Colleges and universities named after individuals (and four-word bio)

  1. Oberlin College - J.F. Oberlin (Alsatian pastor and peacemaker)
  2. Wilfrid Laurier University - Sir Wilfred Laurier (seventh Canadian Prime Minister)
  3. Gonzaga University - St. Aloysius Gonzaga (died nursing plague victims)
  4. Haskell Indian Nations University - Dudley C. Haskell (Kansas Congressman, Indian Affairs)
  5. Rice University - William Marsh Rice (murdered Alger-esque Houstonian bequeather)
  6. Macalester College - Charles Macalester (Philadelphian philanthropist and businessman)
  7. Harvard University - John Harvard (English-born minister, generous benefactor)
  8. Yale University - Elihu Yale (slave trader and philanthropist)
  9. Churchill College - Winston Churchill (notable British prime minister)
  10. Stanford University - Leland Stanford jr (died aged 15, typhoid)
  11. Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, Kentucky - Alice Lloyd (radical suffragette and free-thinker)
  12. Loyola University - Ignatius of Loyola (soldier, saint, Jesuit founder)
  13. Stetson University - John B. Stetson (Florida inventor of cowboy-hat)

Pass – this was fun

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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat

a carved totem pole of various North American Indian tribes
(the “X” is pronounced as a rough “h” sound, as in the German “ch”)

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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
  5. smee
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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
  5. smee
  6. qaid
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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
  5. smee
  6. qaid
  7. alee
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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
  5. smee
  6. qaid
  7. alee
  8. erne
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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
  5. smee
  6. qaid
  7. alee
  8. erne
  9. olio
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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
  5. smee
  6. qaid
  7. alee
  8. erne
  9. olio
  10. iiwi
3458

Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
  5. smee
  6. qaid
  7. alee
  8. erne
  9. olio
  10. iiwi
  11. ara
3459

Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
  5. smee
  6. qaid
  7. alee
  8. erne
  9. olio
  10. iiwi
  11. ara
  12. epee
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Words that you rarely (if ever) encounter, except in crossword puzzles:

  1. aper
  2. obi
  3. xat
  4. jo
  5. smee
  6. qaid
  7. alee
  8. erne
  9. olio
  10. iiwi
  11. ara
  12. epee
  13. etui

For Labor Day weekend: characters in fiction / film etc and their work

  1. Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird - lawyer