Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale most certainly will follow Harvard's lead in voting against the 1955 program. The absence from town of the Eli athletic director, Delaney Kiphuth, has prevented Yale from voting, but indications from New Haven are that the Eli policy of opposition will remain unchanged...
...Students listened reverently to the pastor's prayers, but the "amens" were usually followed by a thundering crash as freshmen and sophomores competed in the art of seat-slamming. Until the clatter had subsided, hymns were almost inaudible. Noisy students were not as riotous as their contemporaries from the town, however. One Sunday afternoon in 1812, a discharged company of Cambridge militia marched triumphantly into the church, "with drum and fife affronting the Sabbath." With measured tramp and fife trilling, they filed into the front galleries, but the congregation studiously ignored them; the long prayer droned on without a break...
Although married twice, Mrs. Corballis is now a widow. On her days off, Tuesday and Wednesday, the 63-year-old girl "galavants around town out on a date, or at the movies." With a recent beau who ogled the movie queens, Mrs. Corballis retorted "young women aren't what they used to be, but, they are all looking for the same thing I am-a husband." "I'd marry you myself, Millie," quipped one freshmen, "if it weren't for the parietal rules...
...remarkable thing about these neolithic people is that they lived in a walled town at a time-more than 7,000 years ago-when man was only just beginning to build any kind of settlement. The reason for the wall is probably the character of Jericho's site. A copious spring of fresh water (Elisha's fountain in the Bible) gushes out of the hillside and makes possible the irrigation of a fertile, subtropical plain beside the Dead Sea. The people of the first Jericho must have developed irrigation and built their prosperity upon it. This settlement...
Interesting in his own right is Author Kubizek, who reveals more about himself than he intends. Trained as a musician, he wound up only as a small-town civil servant. Kubizek (now 66 and retired) is half irritating and half engaging in his stubborn insistence that, in the midst of a vast historical tragedy, he must remain loyal to the memory of a youthful friendship. He symbolizes the Little Man who goes on forever, while the Hitlers rise and fall. And he has at least enough moral sensivity to say: "For the question, then unknown and unexpressed, which hung above...