Word: yales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...membership of the whole country irrespective of section, creed or class; whose traditions for the century and a quarter since its foundation have been so closely identified with the progress and development of the country that its graduates have held high places with their contemporaries of Harvard, Yale and the other older colleges...
...pertinent point of the Yale Professor's lecture was that "Alcohol is a poison and a nareotic just like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe...
Elsewhere in today's CRIMSON appears the comment of a Yale student columnist on the attitude of undergraduates towards music in New Haven. His facts and the conclusions he draws from them are surely significant and could probably be applied to Harvard as well as Yale. An unprejudiced observer could hardly help noticing the interest in music at Harvard as shown by the increasing number of non jazz records bought around the Square, the tremendous overapplication for tickets to the Boston Symphony concerts in Sanders theatre, as well as the number of men taking courses in the music department...
...Note--Following are extracts from an article written by a Yale undergraduate columnist on the conditions of classical music in college...
...imply that as far as cultural standards are concerned there is nothing more to be asked. Far from that! It wishes only to assert that the doldrums of low aesthetic standards (for lack of a better term) are by no means a permanent condition in this country, at least. --Yale News...