Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the true tale of how one brave man (Henry Fordyce, Jr.*) fought a great university (this one) to a standstill...
...agon of Henry Fordyce, Jr. took place in the leafy shadow of the world tree in the Harkness Commons Dining room, where the flower of the graduate schools daily acquires its breakfast...
...triumphantly at the scene of his victory. It was a great occasion. One man had stood up alone before the forces of Authority, and had escaped not only unchastened, but with vast quantities of jelly at his complete disposal. They voted that October 15 should be declared Henry Fordyce, Jr. Day unto all perpetuity. They drank a toast to him with the two beverages permitted by contract at lunch. The plans for a suitable memorial are not complete, but it is rumored that they plan to incise his name into that hallowed jelly table with a wood-burning pencil...
...This name and a few details have been changed to protect Henry Fordyce, Jr...
...York-Chicago Split": Non-Communist Americans signed up with both of the U.S. Festival groups, and the publicized "split" became an easy way of simplifying a number of facts: that party faithfuls like Paul Robeson, Jr., were New Yorkers who were cooperating with the Festival organizers, and that it was a large number of the Chicago group whose right to attend was challenged on fabricated technical grounds...