Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This all too brief history is furnished by the Encyclopedia Britannica, and brings us to the present day, with the emphasis in great centers of learning no longer on the problems of right and wrong, but rather on the problems of right and left. Let us look at conservative Yale today, with the Skull and Bones and the Book and Snake hinting of the secret caucus, and the New Haven Railroad still running two hours late...
...brief digression on the nature of the New Haven trolley is first necessary. Open on both sides, the cars have seats extending across their full width from one side to the other. There being no center aisle, each passenger steps from the street into his seat, as in a European railroad coach...
...however temporary the phenomenon, it is nevertheless true that under the impetus of the war-born Bill of Rights higher education in America has for the first time become genuinely democratic. For one single, brief instant of our history, the chance at a Harvard or a Yale education has suddenly ceased to depend on the financial resources of one's father. Much has been made in the sports columns of the nation of the appearance for the first time on a Yale varsity eleven of a Negro player and of the number of men on both teams whose names...
Originality and liveliness are the keynotes of the Ballet Theatre, the weapons with which producers Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith hope to fight the two other major companies operating in 1946. As far as can be told from its brief Boston stand, the group has lost none of the freshness which has made it distinctive since its birth eight years...
...Elis, whose Boston headquarters will be the Hotel Lennox, are due to work out at the Stadium in a secret drill at 1 o'clock today, and the Crimson will follow them into the scene of Saturday's battle for a final brief workout at 3:30 o'clock. After the rally at Dillon, the squad will have its traditional pre-Yale dinner and entertainment at a nearby country club, and return to Cambridge later in the evening...