Word: johnathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnathan Edwards master, Robert D. French, has announced that a tie-lending bar will be set u pin the college's dining hall for sartorially incomplete students. Said French of the new plan; "It is for the benefit of those who own no neckties or do not care to expose their own elegant cravats to the hazards of their table manners...
...master of Yale's Johnathan Edwards College has gone into the haber-dashery business in order to help his students thwart a recently-established University ruling. The law, put into effect over a storm of protest last spring, requires Yalies to wear coats and ties to evening meals...
Other masters, notably French of Johnathan Edwards and Daniel Merriman of Davenport, like to make College administration a one man job. Both claimed that their small size--fewer than 250 men as against Silliman's 440--was the big influence on their approach. Some masters run their Colleges largely through force of personality, such as Calhoun's Schroeder, who has memorized the name, home town, grades, and major problem of every student in his College. With this equipment, he has managed to draw a particularly strong loyalty toward himself from the Calhoun...