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...that prewar folderol 'Fish or cut bait'. There were double-decker banks in the houses, chow lines, both lines at the Coop". The new Harvard bore only occasional resemblance to the old, great professors still trod the floor boards of Server and Emerson, but these stars (Perry Miller forcemeat among them) had only two names, not the three (George Washington Pierce, George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Coppland) that had distinguished their predecessors. The clubs carried on, but as D.U. member Peter S. Prescott '57 insists. "It was impossible to underestimate their importance;" they were rapidly giving way to mere Pierian...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Four More Years | 6/9/1982 | See Source »

Though not conservative, Yale is paternalistic. When a student strays off the road, Yale steps in long before Harvard does. "We spend an awful lot of time to keep guys from getting into trouble," explains a master. The Master, and not the dean, is the chief law-on-forcemeat agency. He may have from a campus cop that so-and-so has been2

Author: By John J. Back, Edward J. Coughlin, and Rudolph Kass, S | Title: Yale: for God, Country, and Success | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

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