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Princeton's control of the game ended with the half. The Crimson took the opening kick-off in the third quarter and promptly marched to a TD. Tink LeRoy climaxed the drive with a 12-yard gain off tackle. John Hartramft kicked the point...
Other eras were turbulent, insecure and complex ? the great migrations after the fall of the Roman Empire; the age of discovery; Copernicus and Galileo's tink ering with the universe, removing the earth and man from its center; the industrial revolution. But in a sense, the 20th century U.S. is the culmination of all these upheavals?itself the product of a gigantic migration, itself both champion and victim of the industrial revolution, itself faced with the necessity not only of accepting a new universe but of exploring...
...Thirty-seven of them, who had gone on to become professors themselves, had written a book in his honor and handed it to him at a dinner. Appropriately, the book was a collection of their own scholarly essays on Tinker's Century. The title, affectionately lifted from Tink's old course, was The Age of Johnson (Yale University Press...
...master. He railed against the tardy ones, was ruthless in dealing with lazy thinkers and sloppy writers. Yet after classes, students knew they would find friendly counsel in his rooms. There hundreds have gone-from Sinclair Lewis to Yale's President Charles Seymour ("At last a president," sighed Tink when Seymour was named in 1937, "that I can call by his first name...
These days, Tink no longer teaches, but refuses to think of himself as retired. He still keeps his old routine, living in his apartment at Yale's Davenport College, surrounded by his books and Boswelliana. He is oddly chipper on foggy days ("It reminds me of London"), but whatever the weather, he still takes his daily stroll across the campus, stopping to chat with the Davenport gatekeeper, and then going on to Yale's great Sterling Memorial Library where he has been keeper of rare books ever since 1931. One of his objects, already far advanced under Tink...