Word: saybrook
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Knight is a fellow of Saybrook College, and served as Secretary of the President's Committee on General Education which earlier this year proposed starting curriculum changes for Yale. Born in Cambridge, he attended the Western High School in Washington, D.C. and Exeter Academy. After a short stay at Rollins College he went to Yale, where he graduated with the class...
Robert L. Johnson '55 of Aurora and Yale's Saybrook College, wounded two Aurora policemen, one of whom was his own uncle, before being seized and disarmed. Police conjectured that recent reported family difficulties deranged Johnson and he intended to threaten his father's life. When surprised on the street-by police officers, he suddenly went berserk, it is believed, and opened fire without warning...
...South, nor the familiar, raw Northern city slum (which Author Petry well described in The Street, 1946), but the wind-blown Connecticut town of Monmouth, where dark, violent deeds are hard to imagine and slums are small enough to be swept under the carpet. Born and raised in Old Saybrook, Conn., Negro Author Ann Petry has the background to make her story fresh and credible. Apart from a deplorable tendency toward short flights of bogus impressionist prose, she also has the easy writing ability to tell a warm, readable story...
According to Basil D. Henning, Master of Yale's Saybrook College, the "whole project can be regarded as successful." Sophomore seminars are Yale's counterpart to Harvard's House tutorial system...
...Sunday morning several years ago, residents of Yale's Saybrook College threw a pizza at a group of townspeople on their way to church...