Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific academic requirements exist for the program. Some of the students haven't even completed grade school; a few have college degrees...
...meantime, the MacKenzie tie--a thin bow-tie--is being sold all over the country with New Haven stores about to start stocking it for Yale. Ten stores in Los Angeles and three in Texas carry the ties, about 12,000 of which have been sold...
When the Yale Law School faculty voted to change its grading system last year no one batted an eye in either New Haven or Cambridge. The new system, reducing all grades to four--excellent, satisfactory, pass, and flunk--was designed to reduce the emphasis on percentage points, an emphasis which exists strongly at Harvard...
...Student Association, a very active student council, runs some five dances a term which are heavily attended by both students and faculty. There are frequent cocktail parties. Weekends, particularly during the football season, are uproarious, and when New Haven palls, students find New York and Poughkeepsie close enough for convenient commuting...
...Elihu Yale, founder of the New Haven school that bears his name, would be a surprised man if he could see his birthplace today. On the exact spot where he was born in 1648 now stand an amusement gallery and a Waldorf Cafeteria...