Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale, unfortunately, hasn't won a game worth winning all year long. You can understand what that's done to Yale's feelings, the way she looks at herself. We learn that the churches in New Haven have been jammed, remorse frothing from a thousand lips. Liquor sales soared as sullen undergraduates sat limp in their smokefilled digs, drowning the memory of a golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release...
...Princeton coach, therupon produced some elaborate statistics to show how little the first Tiger team had played in the contest, and graciously asserted that "we could have put in our freshman 'B-squad' and still torn them apart." Understandably, this remark did not set too well down at New Haven...
Back in New Haven again, Eli captain Paul Lynch read the newspapers and then retorted: "I see that Shaunessy has been saying they'll wipe us off the field. That makes good locker-room bait." He has acquired a record 54 tickets to this afternoon's encounter "for my family and relatives;" and the Lynch tribe clearly does not expect to witness a slaughter...
...monosexuality of life amidst the monuments of New Haven during the week may be an overemphasis, yet an Eli's social life is geared for the weekend, much in the same manner as that of a girl at an isolated women's college. For on weekends the campus is indundated with females from Vassar, Connecticut, Smith, and other foreign territories...
...maintenance of a purely male community, however, worry many educators. Foremost is the 'unnatural' effect of coming into contact with women on weekends only. An artificial attitude towards dates and sex results when it becomes a special event to meet them; and although Albertus Magnus is in New Haven and Connecticut College for Women not too distant, weeknight dating is infrequent. There is consequently a compensatory amount of drinking...