Word: havens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early afternoon it was cold and sunless. A very light, raw rain began to wash over Yale's gray stone. I walked down Broadway, the slightly sleezier, more tightly jammed Mass. Ave. of New Haven. Down Elm Street to the Old Campus where the freshmen live and where several coed games of frisbee and touch football dotted the quad. All over the campus there was something giddy in the air--like a giant joke that everyone was in on. Lots of smiling went on. People smiled at each other on the street and said hello for no reason. One ecstatic...
...found the Yale Daily News building, and saw a notice inviting all interested coeds to work for the paper while they were in New Haven...
...boys loved it. Business in New Haven restaurants soared during Coed Week, and parietals were virtually nonexistent. One senior told me that it was the "best thing to happen to New Haven since the blackout." They were happy--you could...
...across a yard smiling left and right, stopping and marvelling at just exactly what it was that I was doing. I realized that I felt almost like a missionary or someone from the Salvation Army. It was as if 1000 angels of peace were being visited upon New Haven to calm the seething inhabitants and to show the benighted the light of coeducational normalcy and tranquility. The ever-present smiles on the faces of the girls were almost beatific, surely maternal, and terribly altruistic. Reverend Coffin said that Coeducation Week was an effort to "reincarnate communities--to transform them from...
...Wednesday morning, after a sleepless election night, I saw the sun rise over Harkness Tower. Early in the day I bought a post card with Stiles College on it to send to my mother, and boarded the creaky New Haven railroad to Boston...