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...third quarter, Kirkland made the only scoring bid, but was stopped by Colhoun on the 10 yard line. Calhoun did not penetrate past its opponents' yard line throughout the game...
...Edwards and Daniel Merriman of Davenport, like to make College administration a one man job. Both claimed that their small size--fewer than 250 men as against Silliman's 440--was the big influence on their approach. Some masters run their Colleges largely through force of personality, such as Calhoun's Schroeder, who has memorized the name, home town, grades, and major problem of every student in his College. With this equipment, he has managed to draw a particularly strong loyalty toward himself from the Calhoun...
...special occasions, the Colleges make a big bid for gentility. A week ago, Calhoun replaced its tin trays with crockery, dressed its cafeteria staff in elegant black uniforms, and spectacularly dished out unspectacular food while a string trio played dinner music. A lady dispensing coffee obsessed with her duty to maintain a polished atmosphere, apologized for serving coffee cups on plates rather than saucers to students who usually balanced their coffee on trays. Dress for meals at Yale is not so consistently formal as it is in the Houses. Ties and coats are required for the main meal...
Like the Houses, Colleges have developed reputations. Davenport, Pierson, Branford, and Calhoun are ellegedly the homes of the socially prominent the "white shoe men," and hence the most desirable. Berkeley, Jonathan Edwards, and Timothy Dwight fit into a middle caste. Silliman is the home of vigorous but not big time extroverts, and Trumbull and Saybrook are shunned as "black shoe" choices. These dis- tinctions are pretty spurious since a Council of Masters carefully plants a balance of high school men, prep school men, and scholarship students in each College. Fraternities don't rush until the sophomore year, when students have...
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