Word: yaleman
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...Arrowsmith, his famed novel about the medical profession, Yaleman Sinclair Lewis pilloried pretentious scientists by describing an imaginary and phony temple of science called McGurk Institute on Manhattan's Cedar Street. Arrowsmith was published before the founding of Yale University's Institute of Human Relations, but by a luckless coincidence Yale's Institute in New Haven also stands on a Cedar Street. Yale's Institute has many critics who make the most of that coincidence...
...Haynie, also of Michigan, swam the fastest two distance events in a dual meet since Willie Kendall left competition, with a 2:12.4 220 and a 4:58.8 quarter-mile. Other outstanding feats were Yaleman Dan Endwelse's approximate 133 points to win the dive and the Wolverine 300-yard relay team's 2:58.2 win over the Eli medley trio...
...played on his class chess team, made Psi Upsilon, was elected a class officer in his senior year. After his graduation in 1872, he got a law degree at Columbia and practiced law in Manhattan for twelve years. At 38, bored with the law, he retired and married a Yaleman's sister, Alice R. Goode...
...tall, solemnly nice-looking Yaleman who was pious in college (class of 1919) and not ashamed of it, Elmore McKee was Yale's Episcopal chaplain from 1926 to 1930, then rector of Buffalo's swank Trinity Church until St. George's called him. In Rainsford House Rector McKee, 42, has settled ten budding Manhattan "businessmen" just out of college. They will live there for a year or so, paying $15 a week for board and lodging, and in their spare time do social-service work at St. George's and in Manhattan settlement houses. A phrase...
Ever since 1903 when an upstart University of Minnesota team, coached by Yaleman Henry L. Williams, startled a select circle of U.S. football fans by holding Fielding H. Yost's famed point-a-minute Michigan team to a 6-to-6 tie, Minnesota and Michigan have furnished the No. 1 collegiate rivalry of the Midwest: the struggle for the Little Brown Jug that served as a water jug that day.* Through the decades Minnesota, winner of eleven Big Ten titles, became famed for its powerful lines that looked-to opposing teams-like a nightmare of Primo Cameras; Michigan, winner...