Word: havener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven the N. Y. Athletic Club swimming team broke the world's record for a 300-yard medley relay with a time...
...headquarters, hear of the same robbery, cover the story. He would re-enter the house through the front door, give the policeman suggestions concerning the crime, return to his typewriter and write a florid story. He was a good friend, almost an assistant, of Bridgeport bluecoats. When a New Haven merchant suspected him of selling stolen jewels and telephoned for a Bridgeport policeman to come down, the policeman arrived to greet Mr. Delaney like a long-lost buddy, was surprised to find his buddy a crook. Thus Mr. Delaney went to jail...
Along with the disappearance of that intangible force, public opinion and the undue emphasis placed on outside activities, another unfortunate tendency has developed. When a student feels that he is just one of 1600 members of an undergraduate school at New Haven and is not conscious that he is an integral part of his class, the natural reaction is to seek out men of his own stamp rather than resort to the company of the fellow next door. Instead of having a small and solid class unit, the tendency is for similar men of like interests to get together...
...question chosen for this year's debate is: "Resolved, That this house favors the governmental policies of Mussolini". Harvard will meet Princeton at Princeton, Princeton will journey to New Haven to contend with Yale, and the Blue will meet the Crimson in Cambridge. All of these debates will take place on the evening of March 24. Announcement will be made later as to whether the University affirmative or negative team will remain at home...
...present dilemma is the result of the Campus Referendum last week at New Haven by the Student Council. In the first place, out of 1608 men in the three upper classes, only 772 voted. Secondly, the ballot revealed that the supporters of a return to Faculty supervision were in a six-to-one minority, while the advocates of no supervision totalled a comfortable plurality. The present Honor System was indifferently supported. Finally, however, when the Student Council discovered from the Dean that there was not a chance in a million of the Faculty's ever approving the absence...