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...state conventions in Des Moines to name the 26. The Eisenhower forces had a majority in four district conventions, covering the center section of Iowa (including Des Moines). Result: eight district delegates for Ike. Taft men had control of two districts in the eastern end of the state (including Davenport), and two in the west (including Sioux City). Result: eight delegates for Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Iowa: Ike 15, Taft 9 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Upperclassmen should pick up their blank cards in the Registrar's Office as soon as possible, according to Miss Ruth Davenport, Registrar. Freshmen will receive their cards Monday at a compulsory class meeting in Agassiz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Sets May 1 Deadline For Preliminary Study Cards | 4/12/1952 | See Source »

...hoped that individual initiative would have made coats and ties universal in this College, but this does not seem to be the case," said a disillusioned Theodore M. Greene, master of Silliman College. Silliman, along with Davenport, had had no sartorial strictures...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: New Coat-and-Tie Regulation at Yale Provokes Attack on Eli Education | 3/28/1952 | See Source »

...News editorial appeared March 3. Two days later the paper ran a letter from the "Lower Court Vigilante Committee" of Davenport attacking the rule. "One dean," ran part of the letter, "has 14 striped ties hidden in one of his closets What are they doing there? How did he get them? We'll tell you. The clothing lobby gave them to him as a 'gift...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: New Coat-and-Tie Regulation at Yale Provokes Attack on Eli Education | 3/28/1952 | See Source »

...Another Davenport group, known only as "Little Bohemia," joined with the Vigilantes in satirizing the rule in a letter which appeared in the News March 8. "What will be the next campus instance of the curtailment of Academic Freedom? What future authoritarian "taste control will be imposed? It's about time the Silent Generation took up arms against a sea of troubles...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: New Coat-and-Tie Regulation at Yale Provokes Attack on Eli Education | 3/28/1952 | See Source »

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