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Edward C. Cole, of the Yale Drama School, will teach production and management to the enrolled collegian actors. Other instructors from the Yale school are expected to join the faculty...
...that same year, the Advocate had been launched from the dry bones of the saucy Collegian. That publication had waged a spirited campaign against compulsory, monitored attendance at morning prayers, and met with the wrath of the corporation. A mock Platonic dialogue pointed out that there were four monitors at morning services to note absences and only one minister to offer prayers. "Is it not a shameful degradation of the worship of God," wrote the editors, "to make it a mere instrument for police service...
When the atmosphere had cleared, the Collegian's editors, whose names always appeared on the front page, found themselves in receipt of an order to stop publication or risk expulsion. Thus passed the Collegian...
Amid the gale of oratory on free speech and freedom of the press, that followed, Stearns conceived the idea of starting a new paper, under an anonymous but non-Collegian editorship, to serve as the Advocate of the people. His literary aides in the infant enterprise were Charles S. Gage '67, genial versifier and the most popular man in his class, and William G. Peckham '67, a precocious lad who had entered the College at the age of fourteen...
Confessional Clichés. As a running news story, it was short on facts. Fingerprints seemed to tie 17-year-old Collegian William George Heirens to the brutal Suzanne Degnan murder, perhaps to a couple of others. When word got around that he had talked (after an injection of sodium pentothal), headline writers" decided it was a confession, dusted off their favorite cliches about "truth serums...