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...expresses himself and for his imaginatively disreputable wardrobe. A huge (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), slightly stooped man who is bald but manages to look shaggy in spite of it, he ambles into class apparently costumed to stalk moose, was once accused by Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, when they were both young instructors, of aging his sport coats in a manure pile. He has been known, on a winter day, to wear a neckpiece of red flannel underwear...
...golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release from a fate they found inscrutable? Or the television appeal by President Griswold, imploring alumni coast-to-coat to remain calm in their bungalows, bundled in warm blankets, crouched in dark corners...
...more apathetic than intrigued. The case was admittedly slightly different two years ago when their reaction was one of hostility to the suggestion of Arthur Howe, Jr., Dean of Admissions, that the College consider accepting women. The protests against co-education were so vociferous that President A. Whitney Griswold felt obliged to state that "there is not the remotest possibility of its taking place at Yale," in the near future...
...hour and a half away--and several women's colleges: Smith only two hours distant, and Wellesley but three. The casualness of Elis towards traveling is exemplified by three who journeyed to Wellesley in order to take blind dates to a movie. It is the avowed purpose of President Griswold to cut down on this roaming by increasing academic work loads...
...addition to Griswold's tour, Harvard and Australian law schools are exchanging ideas through visiting faculty members. Peter Brett from Melbourne is at the Harvard Law School this year as Ezra Ripley Fair Teaching Fellow...