Word: yalemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tapped, rooms searched, frame-up attempted. At least one had the novel experience of being shadowed in his leisure moments by the defendants, who were free on bail. Presiding Judge was Robert T. Dewell, a corpulent Yaleman (Class of 1911), who was overwhelmed with appeals for impartiality from fellow Yalemen in the North. Five defendants were convicted and sentenced for kidnapping...
...university-in sonorous Latin pronounced him the 15th president of Yale. In Latin, President Seymour replied. This 200-year-old ritual completed, Historian Seymour mounted the pulpit, warned that "Yale must be vigilantly self-critical . . . must beware of the peril of isolation," pledged "absolute intellectual freedom," exhorted Yalemen: "The duty of protecting freedom of thought and speech is the more compelling in these days when the liberal spirit in the world at large is in deadly peril. Every student at Yale should be impressed with the conviction that only through the spread of the liberal attitude in life...
...only drink what & when they like, but they may charge cracked ice and soda water on their term bills. Princeton men are not allowed to drink in their rooms, and Princeton's eating clubs have a gentleman's agreement with the administration not to serve liquor. Yalemen are not supposed to drink in their rooms, but many Yale clubs and fraternity houses have State permits for bars...
...rehearsals, classes, Parker managed to carry a prodigiously heavy schedule. He still found time to write odes, masques, chamber music, organ-pieces, ballads, overtures, sonatas, cantatas, two operas. But he never equaled his early Hora Novissima. At 56, rheumatic and overworked, Parker wrote A.D. 1919 as a memorial to Yalemen killed in the War, died soon after...
...Babson is a nice gentle man. He receives great publicity and has a large following but he has no academic standing." Convicted with Yalemen Mason & Garland was as pretty a crew of stock-jobbers and boiler-shop operators as ever hooked a widow, including Dave ("The Duke") Durbin, whose sales aids were white spats, a Japanese chauffeur and a Cadillac V16. One of the ablest was a handsome fellow named Walter M. Barr whose specialty was rich old ladies...