Word: sheffe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...projected college is flanked on one side by the Colonial-type Timothy Dwight college, and on the other by the Dwight college, and on the other by the Gothic Van-Sheff buildings, with the result that it is feared in New Haven that a combination of the two styles will be employed, as it has been in Davenport College...
...According to Plans... Silliman College would have a handsome brick front facing the Georgian-federalist Timothy Dwight, tapering off to a forbidding-looking Gothic prison facade to match the present Van-Sheff unit," says the News."... Would that it were possible for Yale to build her latest... in accordance with functional requirements, instead of again indulging in her quaint whims such as that of a gymnasium designed as a medieval fortress or a library as a cathedral...
...hope you enjoy yourself at West Point and Annapolis but for Heaven's sake don't foll for a uniform. Harvard, after all, is the best place for Wellesley girls. Sheff sends his love, as usual...
Born 60 years ago in Annapolis, son of the late famed Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U.S.N., the N.A.M. chairman is a Yaleman with both Sheffield and academic degrees, having graduated from "Sheff" in the Class of 1897 and returning for an A.B. the following year. After law school he joined his father-by special dispensation-for a cruise on the old U.S.S. Kentucky from Manhattan to Hong Kong, dining on the way with the Sultan of Turkey. Back in Manhattan in 1901, Mr. Chester went from law to business and back again to law, and then...
...departments all instruction given in the hitherto strictly autonomous College, Sheffield Scientific School and graduate schools. It set up a Provost to conduct the faculty's business with the Administration, established a single board of admissions and a common freshman year, with a separate freshman faculty, for "Sheff" and "Ac." Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions. At that point, Yale's Grand Old Man, Arthur Twining Hadley, resigned the Presidency, thus leaving Yale not only suffering...