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...True, by cutting down on courses you can still more buildings add, But will ancient English bedrooms make Joe Yale a brighter lad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harkness Heckled | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...House Plan follows the Harvard system, it is not only calculated to make Joe Yale a brighter, but a more social lad. Although many an alumnus is loath to admit it, the organization of Yale today is strikingly dissimilar to that of Old Yale. A strong basis of Yale college life has been the class. When classes were counted in scores, the spirit of comradeship and the spirit of college tradition went hand in hand. Classmates, knowing each other by name and nickname, gayly did battle against other classes, drank beer at Mory's together, crowded the Fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harkness Heckled | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...classmates knew enough Latin to translate him into "Opifex," a Smith. Reduced to "'Pifex," this was his appelation henceforth. His college days must have prefigured the rest of his strange life. After he was graduated his Smiths made him a fat allowance, but he was a queer lad, he was. He wore out the patience of his patrons. They cast him off. He became a sort of tramp. He tried his fortune in mining camps, in New York buoket shops, in the Chicago grain market. He even haunted, as his chaste Cambridge biographer puts it, "sections of Philadelphia which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/18/1930 | See Source »

Lord Globule was a backward lad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First Duke Inc. | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...Hans Brinker; or the Silver Skates, Heidi, Earl the Jungle Lad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goose Dispute | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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