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...ellegedly the homes of the socially prominent the "white shoe men," and hence the most desirable. Berkeley, Jonathan Edwards, and Timothy Dwight fit into a middle caste. Silliman is the home of vigorous but not big time extroverts, and Trumbull and Saybrook are shunned as "black shoe" choices. These dis- tinctions are pretty spurious since a Council of Masters carefully plants a balance of high school men, prep school men, and scholarship students in each College. Fraternities don't rush until the sophomore year, when students have been assigned to a College, so the distribution of aristocracy in a College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Colleges Outclass Houses as Social Centers | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

Breath-taking remedies for every dis-:ase abounded in Britain a couple of centuries ago. Part of the cure for consumption was to catch the tops of nine waves in a dish, then dump the contents on the head of the patient. Asthma could be dispatched by rolling spider webs into a ball and then swallowing them; epilepsy was dealt with by driving a nail into the spot where the sufferer had fallen. Nine lice eaten with a piece of bread & butter cured jaundice, and a poultice of sheep's dung cleared up erysipelas in no time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Handy Hexes | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...second of the series of articles which appeared in Thursday's Tribune, Griffin devotes himself entirely to a dis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tribune Renews Series On Harvard 'Radicals' | 4/2/1949 | See Source »

...groups were set up to conduct a dis-interested investigation of the killing. The Overseas Writers Association, under Walter Lippmann, sent General William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan, of wartime Office of Strategic Services fame, to Greece to find out who killed Polk. And the Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, representing about 20,000 working newsmen in the U. S. and Engand, has been raising money to send a team, to include William Polk, to Greece to track down the killers. The former group hoped to bring pressure on the Greek government to make an honest...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Who Killed George Polk? | 11/27/1948 | See Source »

...Nicholas on Harvard again this week," replied the Seer with dis-Gresh-ion. "Even though they say that the Bruins have a line of Livingstone, we'll Paterno them back, and send them on the Rodewig Thompson to think about...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Brown More Bull Than Bear, Observes Oriental Speculator | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

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