Word: yales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale last week went Princeton's learned francophile, Dean Christian Gauss, to speak at the annual banquet of Yale's Daily News. His points: undergraduates have a sound desire for cultural improvement, are not mercenary. Another point: "... Recently . . . Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick announced that there was less drinking in the colleges than before Prohibition. He cited Yale and Stanford. . . . The News and the Stanford Daily refused to accept the intended compliment. ... I do not know about New Haven but with regard to drinking in the colleges throughout the country I am afraid you are right. ...* You have finished...
Body cells affected by tuberculosis bacilli contain a certain fatty acid. The Sterling laboratory at Yale has been isolating that acid and the Rockefeller Institute has been experimenting with it. Dr. Sabin, with fingers strong but gentle, has been injecting the acid into laboratory animals. She has found that it induces reactions similar to tuberculosis and may be the substance which really causes tubercles to grow. If so, a specific treatment may be evolved...
Last January, Robert Maynard Hutchins was 30. Last week he was made President of the University of Chicago. Going from Yale, where he is Dean of the Law School, he will duplicate and improve upon the feat of Chicago's first President, William Rainey Harper, who made the same journey for the same purpose...
...formation of the college baseball league in which Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania have accepted places has caused some comment on the independent attitude always maintained by Harvard toward associations in intercollegiate sport. Perhaps the commonest interpretation put on this detachment has read into the Harvard athletic policy a disdain of such leagues. "Old high-hat Harvard" is the phrase most often used to describe what is felt to be an independence amounting to conscious self-righteousness...
...Yale, with one of the strongest teams in Blue tennis history, defeated Amherst last Wednesday, by $ to 1. Hays, however, No. 1 man for the Purple, is one of the outstanding players in the East, and should give Captain B.H. Whitbeck '29 a hard battle, while captain Richardson is hardly less able than his brilliant teammate...