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...teachers with American doctorates: the divinity schools at Harvard, Yale, Chicago and Vanderbilt, and New York's Union Theological Seminary. When they and two others* approached the foundation in 1973 about grants, it ordered up instead a thorough study of the seminaries by Theologian George Lindbeck-himself an alumnus of Yale Divinity, where he now teaches-in collaboration with Harvard Social Scientists Karl Deutsch and Nathan Glazer...
Government officials with a Chicago connection range broadly from one end of the political spectrum to the other. Says Gale McGee: "The only school tie that carries over is in conversation at cocktail parties. There's no real affinity." Adds Marcus Raskin, a Chicago alumnus who directs the Institute for Policy Studies, an ultraliberal think tank: "The people from the university literally don't know each other here. Chicago's position was always as an outsider from among the ruling elite of American schools. The people there are highly individualistic, even eccentric, and they see themselves...
...pounds in excess water. Someone suggested leather outfits, and a Boston tailor went to work. Harvard surprised the Elis by appearing at the 1893 game in new waterproof uniforms, much to the displeasure of Yale all-American "Pudge" Heffelfinger '93, who was attending his first game as a recent alumnus. "Pudge," thinking the leather had been employed solely to prevent those Harvard sissies from bodily harm, bounded onto the field soon after the game had started and began tearing uniforms off the players backs. Bedlam erupted for several minutes, but order was eventually restored and the game continued...
...question from an alumnus about the proposed 1-1-2 housing plan drew the most response from the audience. The alumnus said the plan, which would house freshmen in the Quad, sophomores in the Yard and juniors and seniors at the River Houses, seemed "at odds with what we're working for and with your principles of diversity...
...first game of the Series had some similar story of at least vague ties to VIP's. A friend of mine got his ticket from a friend of his who had an acquaintance in the Fly Club, to which several tickets had been donated by an Fly alumnus who had once owned part of the Milwaukee Braves. And, I might as well confess, my ticket too was unearned, a gift from a friend in Washington--where tickets were easier to come by than in either Boston or Cincinati--a friend who knew a Pennsylvania congressman who happened to have...