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Even before this yea's meet, when the Yalie Daily took hold of Coach Bob Kiphuth's patently pessimistic remarks and bludgeoned the Elis almost into the position of underdogs, and then, when the meet was over sarcastically attacked the Harvards we hold back. The Daily depicted 'the vaunted Harvard swimming team as disintegrating like a bad dream before the furious onslaught of the Yalies. A rendition of 'Good Night Fair Harvard' would have been a more fitting climax to the meet than the 400 yard freestyle relay which Kiphuth predicted would decide the winner...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 3/25/1954 | See Source »

...anything in their power to see that Joe gets his comeuppance, come Judgment Day. Last week came Judgment Day: up before the Senate was Joe's request for $214,000 to carry on the work of his permanent subcommittee on investigations during the next year. The vote: 85 "yea," only one "nay"-a voice raised by Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright after McCarthy had demanded a roll-call vote. Among the liberals who failed to hear the Trump: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Illinois' Paul Douglas, New York's Herbert Lehman, Oregon's Wayne Morse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Boy Scouts | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...spectre is haunting the Yard--the spectre of Lamont. For five years, this stone and steel monolith has leered down at the pastoral Yard with its fearsome glass face, frightening freshmen on the way to their breakfasts. One of these years was my freshman year, yea, and more than once I felt queasy as I passed President Conant's crazy little lamp-post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Library: Half a Decade of Decadence | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

Although the meeting is scheduled for Sunday night, October 25, caucuses will meet tomorrow night to plan strategy of debate. The Governing Board also announced the group's now constitution had eliminated the fixed "liberal" and "conservative" caucuses of last year and substituted instead shifting "Yea" and "Nay" caucuses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athenaeum to Debate NATO in First Meeting | 10/17/1953 | See Source »

...Freedom from Fear: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Freedoms | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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