Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five and a half feet longer and 25 m.p.h. slower than the stripped-down MIG-15, the new "Type 15" probably has a longer range, thus might be useful if the Communists decide to try something they haven't dared before: low-level attacks on the U.N.'s fighter-plane bases in South Korea. MIG-15s presumably could not go that far and back from their Manchurian sanctuary...
Indeed there is a more serious aspect to the New Haven squabble, one which has compelled many Yale men to doubt the value of their whole educational system. Paternalism is the crime the Yale administration is charged with, and there is a good bit of truth to the accusations. In the past year, the Dean's office at Yale has sent personal letters to all students warning them not to cheat, has like a stern parent snatched the pleasant tradition of Derby Day away from them, has compelled them to attend classes, and has scolded them for slouching and smoking...
Trivial as all these restrictions may be, their cumulative force has had a depressing effect on the New Haven community of scholars. Yale men just do not like being treated like adolescent inmates of an expensive, well-run prep school, no matter how good its faculty may be. They have had freedom and they like the taste...
...something contradictory in its recent answer to Bill Buckley, a passionate espousal of academic freedom--the right of a student or professor to seek his own path to the truth--and the shackles it has imposed on a student's personal life. Dean's offices, both in New Haven and elsewhere, should consider the consequences of treating students as mature men during the day and as obstreperous children at night...
...Haven reaction to the totalitarian rule came swift and vicious. Only the Yale Daily New was vociferous in its backing of the law. "It is, we submit, a good thing and conducive to a loftier degree of civilization in the manners and mores of Yale alumni," pontificated the News...