Word: calhouns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called "fellows" are attached to the several Colleges, there are no resident tutors available to provide a steady faculty-student relationship of the sort that exists to some extent in the Houses. All the College masters agree resident tutors are a pretty fine thing. "We wish we had them," Calhoun's master, John O. Schroeder, said; "even if Harvard is going broke on the thing, we wish we had them." But tutors are little more than a hope. Yale went half a million dollars into the red last year and this year may be worse. The College's intellectual salvation...
...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...
...pound Doug Worrall is the fly-half, and John Cotter is the scrum-half, Roger Gleeby is the "lock," polo-playing Tom Calhoun the other wing forward, while George Lee, Club secretary, and Brad Lundborg make up the second row. Doug Hardy and Club treasurer Bruce White are in the front row, with Lew Travis as be hooker. The spares are Hollis Hunnewell, Ken Kunhardt, Kit Liang, Andy Eklund, and David Akers...
...Athens (pop. 9,000), the current saying is: "A Yaleman founded the school, but a Harvardman put it on its feet." The Yaleman was Manasseh Cutler, who helped start the university in 1804 as the nation's first land-grant college. The Harvardman: 54-year-old John Calhoun Baker, Ohio's president since...