Word: yales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kiss-of-death. "James Perry, the Brown quarterback who had a record day against Harvard last November, was reportedly discouraged from applying because he wanted to play baseball as well as football and the Harvard coaching staff preferred that he stick to football," Bethell says. Bethell also points to Yale quarterback and Harvard reject Joe Walland as a source of rage. "Both those guys must have been pleased with the parts they played in spoiling Harvard's most recent football season, and they'll both have another shot next year...
...father's footsteps, he was rudely passed over for the job three times. Seriously peeved, he joined a group of conservative clergymen (all Harvard alums) who founded the Collegiate School of Connecticut in 1701. "And," Bethell notes, "it was at Cotton's suggestion that the school was renamed Yale College in 1718. So a Harvard man was instrumental in bringing Yale, as we know it, into being. The ultimate payback...
Kugel, who grew up in New York City and attended Yale University, says he first encountered modern Biblical scholarship in college...
Though his interests were primarily literary at that point in his career, being exposed to modern approaches to the Bible at Yale had piqued Kugel's curiosity...
...professor, who grew up in New York City and attended Yale University, says he first encountered modern Biblical scholarship in college...