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Even though F. Scott was Princeton's literary poster boy, he couldn't help marveling at "Yale's hard, neat, fascinating brightness." For him, Yale "evoked the memory of a heroic team backed up against its own impassable goal in the crisp November twilight, and later, of half a dozen immaculate noblemen with opera hats and canes standing at the Manhattan Hotel bar. And tangled up with its triumphs and rewards, its struggles and glories, the vision of the inevitable, incomparable girl...
Yale's physical beauty is of the same stock one encounters scurrying through Oxonian pathways to ancient College courtyards. Richly detailed gargoyles and grotesques touched daily by the hands of future presidents, the blast of electric guitars shaking lead-framed windows, and colorful cloth Dramat banners flailing in the crisp New England breeze are all the stuff of Yale...
...crisp fall afternoon...
Tripp Tracy was all over the place in the Harvard goal--as usual--yet nothing got by him. The Crimson offense, slow and mundane in stanza number one, was starting to fire bullets and string crisp passes together...
...stop, drop and roll" technique pioneered in the late 1970s. But we were pleased to hear Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans offer further insight: "If sprinklers don't go off easily, kids burn up easily." Right on. There's nothing worse than burned kids--especially when they crisp too quickly...