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...Yale's small (50-man--or less) lecture rooms, dutifully noting down those absent. Editors of the News hark back to the Good Old Days when Big Brother was not watching you, and Yale was a college for self-reliant men. Nevertheless, DeVane's office is not old-fogey; parietal rules at Yale allow women in the rooms until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratic Dean's Office Confuses Foes | 11/22/1952 | See Source »

...with one last touch directed at the main character of our column for these four months, we refer with pride to Granny Lee, one of us lowly Ensigns, who, this month, completes his first fogey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/19/1944 | See Source »

Veterans of seventeen days at he NS CS (4/7.4/23, inclusive dates) every Wave feels as harrassed and harried as an S.O. or a D.O. after his ninth fogey. Those first thirteen disbursing problems with their 845 answers threatened to crush hitherto battered but unbroken spirits...

Author: By Ensign RUTH Wolgast, | Title: Creating a Ripple | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

Money having become the paramount issue, it must be startling to sound-money Democrats like Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Carter Glass of Virginia to find themselves in the Right-wing bed with an old Republican fogey like Ohio's Fess, the prophet of Harding and Hoover, and Pennsylvania's Reed, the voice of Andrew Mellon. To Senator Lewis, Democratic whip, it must seem most peculiar because it was his unexpected election in 1930 which signaled the return of the Democracy to power, the beginning of a Left shift which was to pass even him. Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 73rd Congress: FIRST REGULAR SESSION | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...these statements, and similar Cortissoz writings, reveal an esthetic clearheadedness, a critical sanity quite unusual in a day when loose-thinking esthetes customarily employ such meaningless terms as "realities" and "eternal," choose the most nebulous polysyllables to describe their obscure aims. Modernists, of course, vilify Royal Cortissoz as a fogey if not, indeed, a fool. From them he receives the same stigma of petrifaction which they apply to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sterile Modernism | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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