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Yale's ingratitude began to manifest itself more obviously in the middle of the 18th century, when, by stoutly defending the stern Calvinism of Edwards, it succeeded in attracting students whose parents were growing suspicious of Harvard's increasing "liberalism." Harvard, by this time had abandoned the custom of flogging students for college offenses...
...Quakers, unworried, dug themselves in for the immediate, and expected, barrage of abuse. Hall lashed at Stassen's manifest disregard for the common interest and welfare of all the other colleges in the nation." In succession, Columbia, Cornell, California, and Yale balked at signing football contracts, and Dartmouth threatened to cancel the scheduled game of October 6. Commissioner Asa Bushnell of the E.C.A.C. (an N.C.A.A. subordinate) threatened to toss the Quakers but of Conference leagues in other sports...
...manifest," said the court, "that the McCollum case is not a holding that all released-time programs are per se unconstitutional . . . The Constitution does not demand that every friendly gesture between church and state shall be discountenanced. The so-called 'wall of separation' may be built so high and so broad as to impair both state and church ... It must also be remembered that the First Amendment not only forbids laws 'respecting an establishment of religion,' but also laws 'prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' We must not destroy one in an effort to preserve...
...seeks inevitably to rationalize about it What is it that inspires middle-aged men to return at considerable expense of time, money, and dignity, in order to manifest clan loyalty in various and curious manners? And what is this clan loyalty, to an institution of the past, more vital and more enduring than any loyalty Americans have ever professed? Our cities and our states are not for celebrations, nor are our industries or our religions, but the memory of a college fills American streets every June with fanatics, who even dress like the Bantu natives of central Africa...
Bitterness Manifest...