Word: yalemen
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...last two of these principles caused the legal trouble Gundelfinger ran into in 1939 and 1940. The first theory made his name a by-word among Yalemen. But while many residents of New Haven's gothic towers will speak at length, and in joking terms, about the Gundelfinger legend, there is an equal number that shudders and clamps up at the mention of his name...
...last phrase, probably the most anticlimactic periodic sentence in American literature, is engraved on Gothic walls and Yalemen hearts. "By God, that really means something here," says a professor who switched recently from another college. "I thought it was a gag until I saw it in stone. It is enormously strong as a symbol...
...afternoon last week, a solemn procession in academic robes, headed by the mace-bearing chief marshal of Yale University, formed itself on the New Haven campus. The notables of the procession were mostly Yalemen, deans and professors, and Fellows of the Corporation (among them: Secretary of State Dean Acheson, '15, Senator Robert A. Taft, '10, Connecticut's Governor Chester Bowles, '24). Yale was doing what Yale had done only 15 times before in its 249-year history: inaugurating a president. Yale's 16th: slim, ginger-haired Historian Alfred Whitney Griswold, 43, member of Yale...
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...
...virus of poliomyelitis, one of the smallest disease-causing organisms, is less than a millionth of an inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...