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When a Yale dean snidely called a recent Eli student stunt "a great deal better than face slapping or eating live goldfish," he revived an issue as dead as--one hopes--are the goldfish...
Although neither school sanctioned the Yale Dean Harold B White-man "I think this type of exercise a great deal better than face slapping or eating live goldfish" The Vassar undergraduate reception spoke for itself...
...Goldfish Bowl. The Eleanor who amazed and sometimes annoyed the U.S. by her gadding in the '30s was, in many ways, a shy, naive, and often gullible person. She is still a warm and simple woman, but she is no longer as naive...
...fact, she is one of those rare humans (like her husband and her uncle, Theodore Roosevelt) who have a talent for public life, for living naturally and even comfortably in the public gaze, like a goldfish in its bowl, and for instinctively evading female critics, enraged politicos and other predators with little more than a lazy movement of the fins. Like a good dinner hostess, she is able to dart into controversial subjects (birth control, Senator Joe McCarthy, racial segregation) and out again, getting her strong opinions across in a deceptively mild way. She has a gift for the unquotable...
...remember the little pranks and foolish escapades of several students. It is not only this face-slapping record. It is an accumulation of all the trivial stunts of students through the years that can hurt a college's reputation. That includes the water-bomb incidents, the disengaged trolley wires, goldfish swallowing, etc. Things like that give the public the impression that colleges are nothing but kindergartens in which well-to-do young men idle away their time...