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...raised fee and compulsory membership is a result of a Corporation decision this past summer to finance upper-class tutorial and library facilities, the same as in the Houses. This year there are 126 freshman commuters, four more than last year, but far fewer than the 270 who entered in the fall...
Yale freshman no longer have any control over selecting the upper-class house in which they will spend their next three years...
Languid Infatuation. What Director Ophuls has made of these boudoir trivialities is a veritable Fragonard in motion. Not since Jacques Feyder's Carnival in Flanders has a picture tried so many things at once and brought them all off so well. To begin with, the wonderfully overdone upper-class interiors (designed by Jean d'Eaubonne) are photographed with a languid infatuation that moviegoers who saw La Ronde and Le Plaisir will recognize as characteristically Ophulent. And yet, at the same time, it is clear that Ophuls is unmistakably smiling at his own bad taste...
Patterson's murder was the climax of a long tradition of violence that has touched both hoodlums and the respectable families on upper-class Summerville Road. Hoyt Shepherd, onetime casino owner and political boss, has been attacked and wounded, homes have been bombed, Lawyer Patterson's office was once set afire, and members of the Russell Betterment Association have been beaten on the street...
...Charles. Lowell always said it had been one of his deepest regrets that as an undergraduate he had not known many in his class who later proved themselves men of worth. His regret spurred on his conviction of the necessity of throwing all members of a class together for at least one year. Through the freshman dorms, classmates were to meet each other briefly as equals before passing on to the disrupting existence of upper-class living...