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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full Turn. Though the new enthusiasm is not yet universal, almost every campus has felt it. "I've been in the dean's office for more than 20 years," says Nicholas McKnight, dean of students at Columbia College, "and never have I seen such a wide interest in religion among the students...
...thousands of young Americans, such a dismissal today would be intellectualhleresy. Brown University reports that more students are taking courses in religion than ever before; the number of Smith girls enrolled in religion courses has doubled to 442 since 1950. On campus after campus, says Amherst's James Martin, "there is what one might call at least a new look at the values of our Hebrew-Christian heritage, not only as a neglected and important factor in our cultural history, but also as a possible source of faith for living in today's world-or yesterday...
...police had the first work on their hands at around midnight last night, when they were forced to bar all entrances to the Old Campus to quell an uprising of 250 Yale freshmen brought on by the taunts of 20 Harvard students...
...Campus Police Chief John H. Bowers warned that any students from Cambridge participating in major disturbances on New Haven streets will be turned over to Harvard officials for disciplinary action...
This fall, Yale bought property which three New Haven high schools now occupy adjacent to the Eli campus. Under its contract with the city, the university must wait until New Haven builds new high schools before it can take over the buildings and land. This will not be before the summer of 1957 and Yale has made no definite statements concerning the use of this land. However, about the only other large and empty areas adjacent to the campus and suitable for a new college are the Grove Street Cemetery and the New Haven Green; both seem unlikely choices...