Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...degree-Pusey's first since he was named president of Harvard--will be conferred by Yale President A. Whitney Griswold at a special ceremony in Woolsey Hall at 10 a.m. Later that day Harvard will play Yale in football...
...Yale Dramat is presenting "The Man Who Came to Dinner" at the University Theatre, Friday and Saturday. A combined Harvard-Yale Glee Club concert will be held at Woolsey Hall at 8:30 p.m. Friday...
Inside the Gothic doorways to Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, the great procession formed, bright with the hoods of scholars and notables from all over the world. As the bells of Harkness Tower pealed Onward,, Christian Soldiers, the column moved slowly across the campus to Woolsey Hall. There, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and fellow of the Yale Corporation, called the assembly to prayer. Yale's 250th anniversary celebration had begun...
Yale will celebrate its 250th Commencement next Sunday and Monday. Formal Commencement activities begin on Sunday morning at 11 in Woolsey Hall with President A. Whitney Griswold delivering his first Baccalaureate Address, Senior Class Day Exercises will follow on Sunday afternoon, and Commencement Exercises will take place at 10:30 on the Old Campus...
With the new president in their midst, the notables marched into the vaulted auditorium of Woolsey Hall and there, as Yalemen had done at the opening of the first college building, they sang an old metrical version of the 65th Psalm ("Thy praise alone, O Lord, doth reign / in Sion Thine own hill . . ."). Then Whitney Griswold, wearing around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition...