Word: coffin
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William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain, called the new program more comprehensive than those at other schools, explaining that "the Michigan and Harvard Programs, however excellent, are inadequate on three counts: 1) they involve very few of the total number of students interested, 2) they are costly and 3) they do not avail themselves of existing possibilities...
...response to the Rev. Coffin's criticism of the Harvard program, Donald J. Eberly, assistant director of international students, called Yale's program "a good idea, but inadequate...
...whites who marched behind a coffin into the Louisiana State Capitol at Baton Rouge last week were dressed for a funeral-the women in black veils, their sons in neat dark suits. The adults were New Orleans parents; the children, pupils assigned to the city's newly integrated public schools. And in their coffin was the blackened, singed effigy of a man they have little reason to love: J. (for James) Skelly Wright, the tough-minded U.S. District judge who had ordered New Orleans schools to begin integration (TIME...
...what Graves calls "the good and bad and beside-the-point" of Brazos history. He tells of one settler, John Davis, who built the first floorboards in any cabin in the Palo Pinto country, and who, when his bride died in childbirth, tore up the floor to make a coffin...
According to the Committee, Frank Coffin, former Democratic Congressman from Maine, has agreed to join the dignitaries from four key foreign areas as a speaker. An expert on American foreign economic policy, he will probably give an open address during the final weekend of the program, which begins December...