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...wait to graduate, for by then the U.S. was at war with Germany and he wanted to do something about it. Unable to enlist in the armed forces because of his eye, he entered the State Department and served a year and a half as code clerk at the American embassy in Paris. With that memory of his, Jim was an outstanding code clerk. One of his colleagues in the code room was a young Yale poet named Stephen Vincent...
...Cage (by Jerome Robbins; music by Igor Stravinsky), the most important of the premieres, tells a story at once terrible and absorbing. The dancers seemed to represent female insects who introduce the young, forlorn Novice (Nora Kaye) to the mating rite and to the harsh insect code which requires the death of the male partner. Robbins' savage but striking ballet caused some seat-squirming in the audience. The big question: Is it really a tale of insects, or a parable of life among human beings...
...filthy jokes in classrooms . . . pandering to the lusts of the flesh." Such strictures sent Dr. Archie Turrell, principal of John Muir, and most of his faculty into a slow burn. Not only was Evangelist Phelps attacking them, they decided, but conceivably he was violating California's state education code, which forbids the teaching of religion on any public school campus...
Energetic Drift. Like the British Constitution, the Yale code is unwritten; it is simply in the air. It echoes back to the 19th Century, to the days of William Howard Taft ('78) when undergraduates carried bangers (canes), hired sweeps (servants), and felt it bad form to "talk stand" (discuss marks). They were the days that soon inspired the fictional Frank Merriwell, who would give his all against Harvard ("Old Yale can't get along without him!"), and tight-lipped Dink Stover ("I'll play the game . . . We'll see who'll lead...
Many prospective club members knew little about such fundamentals as code and machine operation. Because of this, the 17 licensed members decided to teach anyone who was interested enough to pay the $2 membership fee everything a "ham" has to know. This instruction program will be expanded next year...