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...leading Congregational churchman, organizer (in 1946) and first chairman of Yale's department of religion, teacher in the Divinity School, author of articles and books (The Task of Religion, Modern Man and the Cross) which emphasized the social importance of religion; after a long illness; in New Haven, Conn. A critic of religious orthodoxy for its own sake, Dr. Schroeder believed that in their scramble for faith and religious security, postwar Americans had sacrificed the "moral naiveté" which had made his own generation "mount ethical horses and ride off rapidly in every direction," convinced that they could make...
Undergraduates at Yale University have just celebrated their last four-day Thanksgiving vacation. A recently announced schedule revision will reduce this holiday to a one-day recess next fall, and will also bring these major changes in the academic year at New Haven...
Reaction to the new schedule has been generally favorable, with students especially liking the longer spring vacation and the earlier start of classes in the fall. In the past, many students have returned to New Haven in mid-Septem- ber anyway, because, as Robert Said, an editor of the Yale News, said last night, "there's nothing to do at home...
...involved in one of the greatest hoaxes over perpetrated on ale. In the Brown game in his junior year, MacKinney suffered a leg injury, making him a doubtful participant in the Yale contest. The trainers at Dillon worked overtime to enable him to play, but he appeared in New Haven on crutches the day before the game. The crutches were a clever device of Coach Dick Harlow to fool Yale, however, for MacKinney was physically fit and instrumental in the 28-0 rout of the Elis...
...Saturday before Thanksgiving I saw the annual Yale-Harvard football game. It was 50 years ago I was at the same game, except at New Haven rather than Cambridge. What makes me wonder more and more is that so little has been changed. The classic words and tunes on Saturday were as refreshing as when first heard 50 years ago. And, still more remarkable, the enthusiasm and finer feeling of loyalty were still the same. Having gone to both universities I am puzzled why I did not decide which was better last week. By no means can I explain...