Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls in their tight slit dresses and the boys in custom-made pistol pants, the "school is a clubhouse, a place of amusement, a convenient place for getting cheap lunches, meeting friends." It is also the haven of the problem child, to whom some schools become completely geared. "He is petted, excused, and studied out of all proportion. He is the man of the hour, and he knows it ... I think that many children made themselves problem children simply because they saw how important they could become...
Henry cut his lip in a scrimmage against the varsity last Monday, but he expected to play at New Haven...
Although Coach Lloyd Jordon insists that "we take these games one at a time", no one can deny that the team was "up" for Princeton last week and will have to be "up" again next Saturday at New Haven. Whether it can afford to meet this pressure for three straight weeks is the question to be answered today...
...elected to the Radcliffe chapter are Edith Baras of Roxbury; Joan Louise Foster, of Everett Hall and Hanover, N.H.; Abigail J. Lewis, of Holmes Hall and New Haven, Conn.; Cynthia M. Rich of Moors Hall and Baltimore; Ann Waddington of Briggs Hall and Bartlesville, Okla.; and May Werthan, of Eliot Hall and Nashville, Tenn...
...theatrical lawyer, who had only recently moved out from Scarsdale and thus was still on probation, waved a green-covered book and exclaimed with the new boy's eagerness: "Of course, I haven't actually read this, but I walked through it pretty carefully coming out on the train. Do you know what this fellow says? He says we spend most of our money on booze, foreign cars and regional stigmata. Stigmata, oh my God! He says we get drunker than anybody else. He says we keep electric wormdiggers in Hepplewhite chests. Now who the hell has ever...