Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Master: Psychiatrist and Landlord...
...preparing for life in a democracy as well as for the life of the mind." Greene lets a College student council initiate and follow through most of Silliman's activities. Through that system, he thinks, Silliman men (Salamanders) will develop loyalties toward each other rather than toward the master or the tradition of the College, as in most of the other nine colleges. "What I'm trying to get," Greene explained, "is an antidote to the disinterest typical of suburban living. I think we've got it. If I tried to abolish this council now I think I'd have...
...Yale, troubled or in trouble, is likely to go to his master rather than a dean or psychiatrist. If he imports a date and signs up early enough the master will put her up in a spare bedroom; each master's family usually handles about 15 girls during the course of a big football weekend...
...actual differences between the colleges are: architecture, location, size, and the convictions of the master. Three of the Colleges are part Georgian, while the rest are a mixed design called "Standard Oil Gothic." Most students prefer Gothic because it has intimate courtyards and is collegiate. But many state on their College application blank that they don't want to live in the heavy lightless buildings. Location near fraternity row or labs is often an influential factor. Size is a matter of taste, and convictions of the master are quite important in a system whose success is dependent on masters' ability...
Though not conservative, Yale is paternalistic. When a student strays off the road, Yale steps in long before Harvard does. "We spend an awful lot of time to keep guys from getting into trouble," explains a master. The Master, and not the dean, is the chief law-on-forcemeat agency. He may have from a campus cop that so-and-so has been2