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Billy Phelps is the most popular professor Yale ever had. A curricular revolutionist, he started (44 years ago) the first college course in the modern novel. A superb showman, he made world headlines when he invited Gene Tunney, who had just cut Dempsey to ribbons, to lecture Yale students on Shakespeare. [An optimist, he finds Schopenhauer "a charming companion."] Friend of Galsworthy, Conrad, Henry James, Shaw, Santayana, Henry Ford, he is a "hero-worshipper" who once told Joseph Conrad he loved him; a critic who called the swing of Eddie Guest's poetry "perfect," Joyce, Dreiser and such moderns...
...plan will care for many of them, whether they may be able to be allied with Dudley, is a question at the present writing. The powers that be in the athletic world here, nevertheless, must fit these men into the competitive scheme of things. Financially, this task will be made very much less difficult by the Committee's plan...
When this investigation was first proceeding, there was raised the question of whether or not to allow Varsity men to compete in sports closely akin to those in which the Varsity men made their mark. And it was the unanimous opinion of the Committee that such men added much needed dignity to the House sports. Under the plan now proposed this dignity has been given serious consideration and was one of the cornerstones upon which we built...
...depends to a considerable extent upon a Yale that is agreeable to cooperation and ready to complement it with a similar set-up. Yet such objections do not invalidate the idea; and if this is accepted in its essence it can develop only with time. Provided the journey is made relentlessly but gradually and cautiously, the difficulties will resolve themselves with the benefit of this time...
From his kicking position at fullback, Dave Colwell led the Crimson attack, ably assisted by forwards John Harvard Castle and Jack Dietz. The second period goals were chalked up by Henry Kidder and Bill Waters, while Colwell made the conversion. Both Colwell and Castle are former Yale football "greats" now attending the Harvard Business School...