Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest number of students, however, deprecated the whole affair. Most of those interviewed had heard nothing about the incident and consequently treated it as a hoax. "You Yale guys will do anything to win a ball game," one commented...
...Shocking Affair...
Yale Dean of Students William C. DeVane could not be reached for comment, but Associate Dean Richard C. Carroll stated, "This is a shockng affair. I trust that our colleagues in the Princeton administration will see that justice is done...
...Harvard CRIMSON was quick to answer and branded the whole affair as a "teacup war." Their main editorial stated that the majority of the student body wanted to continue the series and that the bad taste of a small minority was responsible for the whole affair. "Princeton and Harvard," it ended, "are too much a part of the best traditions of American education to allow themselves to linger in what is at best a petty feudalism...
Just how much truth lies behind all the scandalmongering is hard to ascertain. On the Cooney affair, the bi-partisan state Law Enforcement Council came to no significant conclusion. The Republican majority found Meyner "derelict" in his duty; the Democratic minority exonerated him completely. It might be relevant to point out, however, that Meyner was elected partially as a reform governor, that he conducted a careful investigation of the Hoffman case (former G.O.P. governor Harold G. Hoffman stole some $300,000 from the state), and that under his administration the Joe Adonises and the Frank Ericksons seem to have disappeared...