Word: dens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Frederick Gundelfinger, Yale '06, distributor of pamphlets decrying Yale as a den of iniquity, has become as much a legend in New Haven as Rinehart in Cambridge--but in a different way. Gundelfinger has been a very real and present figure to 30 years of Yalies...
...first book, "The Ice Lens," caused a commotion on the campus. It described the evil and vice of undergraduate life at Yale. From then until 1940 Gundelfinger produced more than 40 books and articles from his New Fraternity press, and swamped Yale with "den of iniquity" pamphlets...
Oliviously the first of these reasons is legitimate. The University cannot afford to lose its reputation mothers would stop sending their sons, and portly graduates their money, to a proven den of iniquity. The second reason is, at least, debatable...
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Berliners are proud of Frederick's bronze statue on Unter den Linden, which, since the start of World War II, had been encased in a brick shell to protect it against air raids. Recently, not fully realizing their kinship to the king, the Communists suggested that the statue be melted down for scrap. An outcry of protest from Berliners taught the Communist bosses that they could put Frederick to better...