Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bread because he wouldn't sell his head...As for E. E.'s remark that he's glad he's no longer young because his generation "had something to revolt against, the new generations have only anarchy," that is sheer nonsense. For one thing, we haven't got anarchy (which might have good points), but cold, dreary economic complusion. For another, with the emphasis today on social conformity, rebels are sorely needed...
Gnawing on an apple as he talked, Stevenson affably reported that he fell: "more rested than when I arrived, but I haven't had enough sleep." The three-month campaign for the presidency, said Stevenson, was not so strenuous as his ten-month campaign for governor of Illinois in 1948. But, he added, "defeat is not a shot in the arm." As for his and his party's future: "I should hope very much that the Democratic Party will take a position of positive and intelligent opposition. To the extent that I can help make the party...
When, in 1864, a student stabbed a New Haven man to death. Yalies gathered firearms of every sort, congregated in two buildings, and dug in for a sizable siege. Furious townspeople rolled three cannon onto the Green, facing the buildings. President Wooley frustrated students not to sheet until fired upon, but then to shoot accurately. However, police managed to quash the oncoming slaughter...
...Campus. Soon, thousands of students poured out of their dormitories and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the veterans, nearly demolishing Old Campus. Hours afterwards, strife-riddled ranks of veterans and Yalies went their respective ways, having added another bloody page to the gory history of New Haven's Town-Gown relations...
Other schools seem to handle the problem quite well. At Yale, for example, a student agency digs up rooms, quotes prices, and gives students letters of introduction to tourist homes. Of course, the female importing business at New Haven is on a considerably larger scale. The College needs only a temporary agency to operate before the major social weekends...