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When British Colonialist Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, he left the world two legacies: a South African mining empire to keep the women of the world in diamonds and a bequest to use the profits therefrom to educate at Oxford University, "the best men for the world's fight." But times change. And this year, to conform with a 1975 act by the British Parliament, Rhodes scholarships are being awarded for the first time to women. Among the 32 American winners named last week, 13 are female. One, Yale's Sarah Deutsch, concedes her image of a Rhodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 3, 1977 | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...meatballs were cut away from a jockstrap and eaten; that residents of the Yale-New Haven Mental Hospital, on evening leave, presented the guest of honor with a painting entitled The Criminal Penis Entering the Mouth of the Nun; and that the "Scriptures of the Holy Rectum," or excerpts therefrom, were read aloud to the assembled body...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: God and Bladderball At Yale | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

...letting me have the list of references in the eugenics field. I did of course not intend in my letter to deny the possibility that intelligence is inheritable, but I was rather concerned with the inferences of the Atlantic article which might or might not be drawn therefrom for differences in average intelligence in racial groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Musgrave-Herrnstein Letters | 1/20/1972 | See Source »

Thanks to your article, I know now that Nicky-poo is real. A real egocentric who uses his fire-eating "social commentary" and the fame (?) deriving therefrom as a lever to get himself little pay raises from his imbecilic capitalist employers. A real armchair revolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1970 | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...summons charged that berg "encouraged and participated in the forcible seizure of University Hall and in the forcible removal therefrom of Dean Robert B. Watson, Assistant Freshman Dean Burris Young, and other members of the Harvard community, and that you remained in University Hall after having been forbidden to do so by University authorities...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: 35 Attempt to Enter First Freund Hearing | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

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