Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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New Haven's finest showed as much vigilance as Her Majesty's Royal Kenya Rifles when confronted with a jeering mob; and now President A. Whitney Griswold has placed the entire student body on probation. Although designed to conciliate righteous New Haven residents, such repression seems especially grave for spring...
NEW HAVEN, March 16--In a dramatic move designed to soothe town-gown bitterness caused by the St. Patrick's parade riot here Saturday, Yale University Deans today imposed "general probation" on the entire undergraduate body.
Early reports of this penalty, leaked by a national news service, provoked some students to protest against what seemed a blanket prohibition of any class cuts or social activities in college rooms. But the Dean's statement made clear that general probation means only "immediate dismissal for further public misconducts...
But the most significant aspect of the entire affair, as far as most Yale undergraduates are concerned, is the probation announcement, issued at 5 p.m. today by William C. DeVane, Dean of the College, Dana Young, Dean of the School of Engineering, and Harold B. Whiteman, Dean of Freshmen, which...
It was a matter for debate last week whether any student had been stimulated, but there was no question that something had been done. Of a freshman class of 2,500, half were on scholastic probation.