Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benefit games for unemployment relief, Harvard, following its President's firm policy, refused to go along. Later, however, voluntary collections were allowed at some home games. After a tight 7-6 victory over Dartmouth, the unbeaten Crimson eleven, led by All-American Barry Wood, confidently faced their New Haven rivals in the season's traditional final game--and lost, by a heartbreaking 3-0 score at the hands of Albie Booth...
...train to Westport (so goes the story), a junior advertising executive was eagerly reading a book in a plain wrapper. The train hit a New Haven bump, the book fell to the floor, and the title was revealed for all to see: The Status Seekers. By the rules of status seeking, it was a serious goof: no smart social climber wants to be caught showing too much interest in the book, since anyone in secure social status should be above any concern with the restless and near-universal scramble for position that Author Vance (The Hidden Persuaders) Packard undertakes...
...colleges all over the country. This plan enables the small, less heavily endowed colleges to acquire the services of a great scholar whom they might not otherwise be able to afford. It also gives the emeritus professor an opportunity to continue his teaching career if he so desires. The haven for retired law professors is a unique institution, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco which is staffed almost entirely by emeritus professors...
...Haven, Conn., three Protestant clergymen filed a suit in Superior Court to contest the constitutionality of Connecticut's 79-year-old law forbidding the spread of birth control information. The law, originally coupled with a ban on the sale, distribution or printing of obscene literature, has been under attack for years by physicians and their patients, but is regularly kept in force by the state senate, strongly supported by the large urban concentrations of Roman Catholic constituents. The New Haven ministers -the Rev. C. Lawson Willard of Trinity Episcopal Church, Luther R. Livingston of Bethesda Lutheran Church, and George...
Dyke Benjamin led the varsity track team to a respectable third-place finish in the Heptagonal track championships last Saturday at New Haven. Yale's powerful Bulldogs won the Heps title with 64 points, followed by Navy with 41 1/5 and the Crimson with...