Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haven during the week may be an overemphasis, yet an Eli's social life is geared for the weekend, much in the same manner as that of a girl at an isolated women's college. For on weekends the campus is indundated with females from Vassar, Connecticut, Smith, and other foreign territories...
...denizens as the magnet in the case, is now a regular occurrence.... The causes of this development are numerous and complicated, and the results are almost catastrophic, in my opinion, for the continued good health of undergraduate education at Yale," Thomas C. Mendenhall, Master of Berkeley College and Smith's president-elect, wrote in 1953. "When the student's original academic obligation and his self-imposed extra-curricular demands are added to the mixture, the effects of this weekending are far reaching and, I think, disastrous," he added...
Compounding the tendency to flee to greener pastures from New Haven is the close proximity of New York--an hour and a half away--and several women's colleges: Smith only two hours distant, and Wellesley but three. The casualness of Elis towards traveling is exemplified by three who journeyed to Wellesley in order to take blind dates to a movie. It is the avowed purpose of President Griswold to cut down on this roaming by increasing academic work loads...
...number of women undergraduates at Yale is small; nine in the Master of Arts in Teaching program and a few in the School of Music. The girls in the MAT received a great deal of publicity last spring when it was announced that selected students from Smith and Vassar would spend their senior year at Yale. They will receive a B.A. from their own college but upon completion of a second year at Yale will obtain an MAT degree...
...Count Ory as one could want. Ewan Harbrecht, as Countess Adele, has a small but beautifully trained voice, and tosses off all her demanding fioriture with complete case. Ronald Holgate (The Tutor) has a rich bass voice; all he needs now is to strengthen his bottom register. David Smith (Raimbaud) has a pleasingly full timbre, as has Doris Okerson (Ragonda) when she gets over her initial edginess...