Word: yalemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale's whole philosophy of education came under attack the very next day from another irate letter-writer, George Rehin '52. He wrote, "They would have all of us dress alike, behave alike in class and thing alike. There will come a day when all Yalemen must dress like spooks on Tap Day, sit rigid in the class room with the somber and vacant stares of mechanical men, file with military precision into the dining halls, and never touch women or liquor after...
Father Murray looks forward to introducing Yalemen to Thomism: "I want to show it is a rational philosophy, that it's acceptable intellectually, not only because great intellectuals of previous ages have accepted it, but in itself as a mode and body of thought. If I can't make my students see it, that's the end." The betting at Woodstock is that Murray will make them...
...some respects all Yalemen are Johnny Appleseeds at heart, dedicated to the proposition that one does not earn one's "Y in life" just for oneself alone. They might, be as different as RFC Director W. Stuart Symington and Columnist Max Lerner, both '23, or as bustling Senator William Benton of Connecticut and his lifelong friend, Robert Maynard Hutchins, both '21. But they are all apt to be men with a mission, whether it is holding high public office, running a local community chest or managing the Red Cross drive...
Campus anthropologists like to divide Yalemen into "White Shoes," "Brown Shoes" and "Black Shoes." The White Shoes come from the proper families and the proper prep schools; their weekend dress, almost like a uniform, is a button-down shirt, striped tie and Brooks Bros, suit. The Black Shoes are apt to be on scholarship (one-third of all Yale students are), working their way through college. The Brown Shoes are somewhere in between...
...during the age of Angell that a freshman named Whitney Griswold moved into the old freshman Oval. He had come from Morristown, N.J., with generations of Yalemen behind him, the son of a New York insurance broker who would leave for work in Manhattan each morning before daylight and return home each night after dark (his paternal advice: "Don't commute!"). By the time young Whitney got to Yale, his education consisted of eight years at a small private school, followed by four years at Hotchkiss, in Lakeville, Conn...