Word: yalemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open aid to the Allies, believing it would lead the U. S. into war. Furthermore, he thought Seymour's views were not those of the student body and got up a poll showing 3-to-1 on his side. General Robert E. Wood (Sears, Roebuck) heard of the Yalemen's activities, asked Stuart to visit him. Out of their conversation grew the America First Committee...
...Yale's students, 1,486 of whom had petitioned President Roosevelt to keep out of the war, these were alarming words. No less alarming were those of Henry L. Stimson (three days later nominated Secretary of War), who arrived in New Haven to urge fellow Yalemen to support compulsory military training, and of Yale's President Charles Seymour, who on the radio urged repeal of the Neutrality Act and all possible aid to Britain...
Three of them are Yalemen; all of them want to be better. One of them started life (after Yale '28) as a floorwalker in Macy's, eager to learn in that temple the arcana of business success. He later got a job with FORTUNE. One was a Chicago boy who (after Yale '27) wandered to Spain, North Africa, Florida in search of the right place to sit down and write. One (an indispensable one) had money: a Yale ('28) esthete whose Manhattan family helped manage the Revolution (1776) and has since been so well-satisfied with...
Swimmers have to be realists in the matter of pre-game hopes for victory, since most men's performances can be predicted if their previous times are studied. Because the clockings of the Yalemen have been consistently superior to most Harvard efforts, Captain Cutler and his team can hardly entertain many hopes of defeating Russ Duncan and his mates, but they will derive a certain satisfaction from scoring as many points as possible, and even in pushing the Blue mermen to new records...