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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground for predicting either as a result of the Harvard houses or of any other educational conditions about which I know that the good American small colleges will disappear." Thus Professor Chester Noyes Greenough '98, who will be master of one of the new houses, commented upon the recent report of Dr. B. I. Bell, warden of St. Stephen's College, who predicted the "eventual abandonment of the most firmly intrenched small colleges...
...New Haven, Conn., Nov. 19--Undergraduates of three of America's oldest and most famous universities are suspected in the theft during the Yale-Princeton game of the last remaining section of Yale's traditional fence, which for ever fifty years has served as a background for the official pictures of undergraduate Eli notables...
...Massachusetts license was seen to drive off after several men allegedly loaded the vehicle with a large, bulky parcel which they carried out of the building in which the each singles are located. Princeton and Yale undergraduates are also variously reported to be implicated in the roberry. On the New Haven campus, in fact, the university authorities are said to have threatened expulsion for any Eli undergraduates found to be implicated in the removal of the Blue shrine...
...estimate the heat of emotion likely to be kindled by its recent disappearance. The rumor that prompt expulsion hangs over any Yale undergraduate who might be implicated in the outrage may be taken as an indication of the reverence with which the fence tradition is regarded in the highest New Haven circles...
...notoriously poor judges of the effects of what they are pleased to consider practical jokes and it is most improbable that the persons responsible for the purloining of the famous Yale antique had any conception of the really serious furore which the event is reported to have caused in New Haven. It is certainly to be hoped that those who consider themselves directly offended by the incident will preserve sufficient sense of humour to prevent any such consequences as are hinted at by the alarmists of the professional press...