Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the Houses, Colleges have developed reputations. Davenport, Pierson, Branford, and Calhoun are 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...
...curse of bigness," he confesses, but they have done an admirable job of holding the line. "The House system and College system are particularly valuable in this resect. They provide valuable small college intimacy and serve as a brake on larger enrollments since both universities gauge admissions to fit their residential systems...
Under the current system, the Chairman of the News takes charge of any undergraduate activity that doesn't fit into the jurisdiction of one of the minor committees. The News letter column is a forum for student gripes and opinions...
Last on the minutes of the day's meeting was the Corporation conclusion that "Mr. Norton is not thought fit for the discharge of the butler's place...
...attitude of death, until the local Dr. Quigley scuttled out, regarded him for a moment, and then prodded him thoughtfully a couple of times with his foot. This indignity so outraged the goalie that he jumped to his feet to berate the doctor, and was promptly pronounced fit for duty...