Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon of tap day last week, there was a stir of special excitement at Yale. Would Halfback Levi Jackson, the first Negro ever to be elected captain of a Yale football team (TIME, Dec. 6), also be the first of his race to be tapped for a senior society...
...Battell Chapel bell struck 5, a Skull & Bones man, a Scroll & Key man and a Berzelius man whacked Jackson on the shoulder in rapid succession. Following the established decorum for a junior with other ideas, Jackson shook his head to the first two. But to the Berzelius man he nodded, then walked to his room...
...well-informed upperclassmen, Jackson's choice was no surprise. It had been rumored for several days that he would "go" Berzelius,* along with his teammates Fullback Ford Nadherny and Ends Lawrence McQuade and John Setear. Levi himself said only, "I had to make one choice; I just chose Berzelius...
...fine June morning, wrote Shirley Jackson, the whole village began to gather. The children, their pockets stuffed with stones, came first, and three of the boys built a pile of stones in a corner of the square. Then came the men, talking of taxes, crops, the weather. The women, wearing house dresses and sweaters, came last...
...LOTTERY (306 pp.)-Shirley Jackson-Farrar, Straus...