Word: yales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, his classmates had never seen a certain Yale undergraduate naked, so George W. Bush took it upon himself to change that. In a show of dedication, Bush camped out in front of the young man's shower and waited for him to emerge...
...senior year, Bush was tapped to join the Skull and Bones, one of Yale's most prestigious secret societies, to which his father had belonged...
...Yale of the father gradually seemed to be becoming the Yale...
...Yale administration proved more conciliatory to the student protesters than their colleagues elsewhere. In Bush's senior year, the dress code was abolished and Yale moved to a pass-fail grading system. For the first time, public high school graduates outnumbered prep school graduates at Yale. And University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin publicly denounced the Vietnam War in debates with William F. Buckley...
...still had a group of students who were here under the old terms, and they didn't see their membership at Yale as a platform to change society," Chauncey says...