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Yalies live in gothic buildings. This seems a suitable setting for the ideas of yesteryear. Fellx Cayo '54, Yale...
...disant "freedom of a great university," is an unjustifiable expense. Biddies are a luxury most of us would be sorry to see removed, but if a higher education is to be indirectly refused capable students through the expense of this admirable old institution, they, too, should go. Felix Cayo...
...Cayo is quite correct. The CRIMSON's "Punch" expert chose to attack the problem on the lowest level...
...West, called Cayo Huesco-Bone Reef-by buccaneers, was once a clearing house for pirate loot. Before its shores were marked with lighthouses Key West inhabitants did a good trade in wrecked vessels. Then came Cubans, fleeing their revolution in 1869. who set up Key West's cigarmaking industry. Spongers and shrimp fishers followed. For a time the U. S. planned to make it an American Gibraltar. In 1896. Key West's prosperity was at its peak, its population at an all-time high of 25,000 and it was the biggest, richest city in Florida. But despite...
Pirates called it Cayo Hueso which meant bone reef. English tongues twisted it into Key West. The flat little island, six miles long at the tip of the spiny archipelago which curves southwest from the Florida peninsula, was settled in 1822, the southernmost town in the continental U. S. The Cuban revolution of 1869 sent political refugees scudding across 90 miles of open water to Key West as a safe haven. A Cuban named Eduardo Hidalgo Gato started the first modern cigar factory there five years later and the community began its climb to prosperity...