Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as serious is the effect--academically--of the 'disintegration' of the Yale community on weekends. "A weekend away from New Haven, with a girl's college or one of its denizens as the magnet in the case, is now a regular occurrence.... The causes of this development are numerous and complicated, and the results are almost catastrophic, in my opinion, for the continued good health of undergraduate education at Yale," Thomas C. Mendenhall, Master of Berkeley College and Smith's president-elect, wrote in 1953. "When the student's original academic obligation and his self-imposed extra-curricular demands...
Compounding the tendency to flee to greener pastures from New Haven is the close proximity of New York--an hour and a half away--and several women's colleges: Smith only two hours distant, and Wellesley but three. The casualness of Elis towards traveling is exemplified by three who journeyed to Wellesley in order to take blind dates to a movie. It is the avowed purpose of President Griswold to cut down on this roaming by increasing academic work loads...
...freshman football champions from Matthews North were slated to play the Eli North Middle squad. The game had to be cancelled though when the New Haven team failed to appear...
...isolated individuals have a rather difficult decision to make each year when The Game rolls around. These men are the Harvard-educated Yale professors, and the few poor souls on the Harvard faculty who happened to have received their degrees from New Haven...
...list of men who have drifted here from New Haven is a long and distinguished one, including Dean Bundy, Archibald MacLeish, Dean Brooks, V. O. Key, Andrew Gleason, David Owen, Kingman Brewster, Whiting, and many others. Yale also has its share of defectors, men like Paul Hammond, Blitzer, Robert Lane, Richard Ruggles, H. Bradford Westerfield, and James Tobin. Besides the momentous choice of football loyalties, these people who have had associations with both schools have some interesting observations about the different characteristics of each...