Word: calhounism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starting team opposing the Engineers is not the Crimson's best. Player-coach Tom Calhoun's main purpose is to give the squad members who didn't compete in Bermuda during Easter vacation a chance to show their abilities. Nine of the team's starters go to the Business School; Dave McGiffert being the lone Law School representative. Graduate school players have usually been lighter and faster than undergraduate ruggers...
...squash team, playing without their first man, Berk Johnson, defeated Calhoun College 3 to 2. Alex Gottschalk, Bob Hartley, and Gene Mann won matches for the Deacons...
Previous experience is not necessary, Callahan emphasized. President tom Calhoun 2B and Peter Hager 2B, treasurer, will help coach the team for the trip...
Fundamentalists replied quickly and in anger. Said the Rev. Harold W. Morris, preaching to his First Church of the Nazarene congregation: "We believe all that he makes fun of." Pastor David Calhoun of Immanuel Baptist Church warningly quoted St. Paul (I. Timothy 4:1): "Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits." Wrote an angry letter writer to the El Paso Times, in a flood of protest mail: "I may not have as many college . . . degrees to my name as [Wright], but I have one degree, a God-conferred degree of B.A. (Born Again), which...
Fraternity values as well as secret society values are strong at Yale; if an object is "shoe" it is desirable, if it is "black shoe" or "non-shoe" it is to be shunned. Even more than the Houses, the Yale Colleges mirror prevailing undergraduate prejudices; Calhoun, the "shoeiest" one, is flooded with applicants, while Jonathan Edwards, Trumbull, and Saybrook are ignored by freshmen. An organization with a black shoe reputation has an uphill fight to stay alive...