Word: haven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn, January 24--Although the 1929 Yale oarsmen are taking advantage of the open water and row on the Housatonic, the University crew will make no attempt to follow them, as reported recently, but will keep up work in the tanks in the University Gymnasium until a permanent break in the ice comes, it was announced here today...
...controversy over the respective merits of liberal education and vocational training has broken out at New Haven, with the Yale News and Mr. Roger W. Babson, founder of the Babson Institute, new antagonists on an ancient battle ground. A somewhat heated editorial on Mr. Babson's educational ideas, characterizing the business man as "the biggest butter and egg man ever laughed at", aroused the wrath of Mr. Babson, who has retorted with a letter designed to prove--via the Socratic method--the superiority of an institution which develops the fundamentals of a successful business career to the average four year...
Just one week ago the University announced that henceforth Seniors in good standing would be permitted to cut classes at discretion; yesterday came world from Yale of the inauguration of a similar policy at New Haven. The correspondent of the Boston Transcript enthusiastically hailed Yale's new ruling as "the most progressive extension of its educational policy attempted since the establishment of the elective system...
...decision of the Yale Faculty is described as "one of the most progressive steps toward academic freedom since the adoption of the elective system at the New Haven Institution. As in the action of the University authorities the move is in way of reposing more reliance in the attitude of the individual toward his scholastic duties. The new system is expected to place less emphasis on the classroom and supervised instruction and more on the work of original research and independent study...
...months later, in the same college dormitory: "Say-er-Speed, haven't got those ten sockos, have...