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...TIME, Dec. 15, LAW) Rajah Sir Hari Singh of Kashmir fell foul of his own indiscretion and of a rascally pack of blackmailers. Having surprised him in Paris, at a moment when he was closeted in a hotel room with a certain Mrs. Robinson, they extracted $750,000 of "hush money" and promptly fell quarreling among themselves as to its disposition. In the course of as noxious a law suit as ever stank before an English judge, they introduced all the facts concerning their Oriental victim's indiscretions. And the British Government, "for the highest reasons of State, caused...
Times have changed, however, and if recent press dispatches are to be credited, Dean Frederick Sheetz Jones has announced the possible erection of an academic skyscraper in the center of Yale campus which will overshadow Nathan Hale and Connecticut and even the hated purlieus of Hush Hall. Shades of Timothy Dwight! How will God-Bless-You Mary ever collect her washing and how will Jerry deliver the Lit and the Oldest College Daily at the twentieth floor? Why by express elevator of course, and the undergraduate of the future will lounge elegantly about in libraries, billiard parlors and sun rooms...
...dormitory authorized by the Yale Corporation started unexpectedly to rise, hard by sacrosanct old Connecticut Hall on the Yale campus, great was the shout that went up (TIME, Nov. 3, Nov. 17). Faculty, alumni, undergraduates blended their voices in the outcry: "Stop it! Tear it down! Hush hall!" Moved, the Corporation ordered that the walls cease to rise. Committees met and met, discussing what was wise and proper to be done. Dr. James R. Angell, Yale's diplomatic chief executive, went hither and thither, explaining, dissuading...
...week proved sufficiently violent to drive the workmen from the site and sweep the Corporation into renewed conference. The Committee on Architectural Plans was to meet with, hear the views of, other elements of the college. Meantime, building was suspended. The new dormitory, dubbed by the Yale Daily News "Hush Hall," because of the "secrecy" attending its advent, was anathema because it was to copy and stand beside old Connecticut Hall, traditional shrine...
...architectural departures at Harvard, announced last week, were received more calmly than "Hush Hall" was at Yale. The Harvard planning board declared its intention of shutting off street scenes and sounds from Harvard's famed Yard. Rather than literally wall off the Yard from Harvard Square and adjacent streets, which might give "appearance of monastic or snobbish seclusion," plans were drawn for a fringe of small dormitories between the present buildings and the fence surrounding the Yard, combined with a new bursar's building, to be called the Counting House. The first of these buildings to rise will...