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President Conant gave a short informal speech last night at the New England Associations of Colleges and Secondary School's 45th annual meeting in the Georgian room of the Statler. It is the custom for all new presidents and headmasters to speak at the meeting which takes place in the year of their inauguration. Two other new presidents, President Bancroft Beatly of Simmons College, and President Hugh F. Baker of Massachusetts State College, and one new headmaster, Claude M. Fuess of Phillips Andover Academy, also spoke...
...keeping with the prevailing style of architecture at Yale, all the Colleges are Gothic with the exception of Pierson and Davenport, which are American Georgian like the Harvard House. The rich and heavy Gothic makes the Colleges seem more cloistered, while the narrow windows make most of the rooms rather dark. The Colleges are uniformly smaller than the Houses, accommodating from 175 to 200 residents apiece...
...moral restrictions with a good New England imagination. In all the Houses, save Adams and Dunster, for instance, it is necessary to procure such permissions from the Senior Tutor or House Secretary twenty-four hours before the artful female is to inject her touch of potential scandal between sober Georgian walls...
Undergraduates may sign inter-House and guest slips for dinner, and these will be charged on the term bill. Arrangements are being made with the Georgian caterers for serving meals in the rooms...
...censorship of his day was too much for him. Nowadays literary fashions are franker: almost everything can be said in print, and nearly everything is. Of all the young writers who frisk it in their new-found freedom, few kick higher heels than Erskine Caldwell, husky 30-year-old Georgian, the Methodist minister's son whose ribald God's Little Acre (TIME, Feb. 20) fell foul of Vice-Crusader John S. Sumner but was given a clean bill of health by the courts. Essentially a humorist, and of the earth earthly, he has not yet settled down...