Word: branford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Domestic Explosion. All of this is literally the stuff of an old-school novel. Author Leggett (class of '42) remembers prewar Yale, from a Tap Day at Branford Court to any day in the heelers' room of the Oldest College Daily. He tells it with marvelous class and considerable spit and polish. He also manages to launch his dual heroes upon a Marquandish stream of life...
...Yale, a combined Winthrop-Dunster hockey team raced to a 4-0 lead only to see the determined Yale All-Stars win, 6-5. Quincy tankmen lost three judges' decisions in a 33-24 dunking by Branford College, while a more experienced Calhoun squash team defeated league-leading Winthrop...
...academic merits." Galston and his colleagues have apparently just discovered that "ROTC is like singing in the Whiffenpoofs-a perfectly fine activity, but one that we don't think merits any academic standing." Not all professors were even that dispassionate. J. P. Trinkaus, another biologist and master of Branford College, wrote loftily in the Yale Daily News in December that "much of the philosophy of the military runs counter to that of a university, and besides, low-level trade-school courses have no place at Yale...
Leverett House's intramural tackle football championship team shutout Jonathon Edwards-Branford, 12-0, at Soldiers Field yesterday to lead a sweep of the Harvard-Yale tackle football competition...
...delighted by your praise of the movie version of my book Rosemary's Baby [June 21] and aghast at your reference to its apartment-house setting as the "Branford," rather than the "Bramford." I chose the name in memory of Writer Bram Stoker, and 1 shudder to think that you may have offended his baby, who is still alive-you know he is-and whose name is Dracula...