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Movie Review | 'Harvard Beats Yale 29-29': Back in 1968, When a Tie Was No Tie
Tue, Nov 18 | NYT > Pro Football
Kevin Rafferty makes the case for remembrance and for the art of the story in his preposterously entertaining documentary “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29.”
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IVY LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
HARVARD Beats Yale, 29-29" was the typically scurrilous headline that appeared in a rag called the Harvard Crimson after the outlandish 1968 edition of the annual gridiron epic known on both campuses as, simply, "The Game." Footage of The Game...
23 hours ago | New York Post
New Tailgate Rules May Mean Lower Turnout
Harvard has changed The Game—again. House Committees are bracing themselves for lackluster turnout following significant changes to this year’s Harvard-Yale tailgate rules.
Tue, Nov 18 | Harvard Crimson
Yale prez urges India to focus on quality than quantity
Cautioning India against number game in setting up institutes of higher education, Yale University president Professor Richard C Levin today said it should focus on developing a couple of world class institutions, a strategy that is being pursued very successfully in China. If India s...
Tue, Nov 18 | Webindia123
Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide To This Week’s Movies: Ivy Boys Get Dirty
Forty years ago, on a chilly afternoon in November, the Harvard and Yale football teams met at Harvard Stadium to play their final game of the season. For the first time since 1909 both schools were undefeated, and when the game was all over it was an instant classic, a thing of collegiate and...
Tue, Nov 18 | New York Observer
Yale University announces $75 mn educational Initiative with India
The Yale University has announced a 75 million dollar educational Initiative to engage with India and South Asia. The broadest and most ambitious interdisciplinary effort of its kind to date, it will position Yale University among the worlds pre-eminent educational institutions. Acc...
Mon, Nov 17 | Webindia123
The Latest Nontroversy: YDN vs All Things Good (i.e. Obama Campaigners)
Last Thursday, the Yale Daily News rained insulting (and aged) statistics onto the campus’s crowd of Obama supporters. The title of YDN staffer Divya Subrahmanyam’s article alone could reap the scorn of anyone who’s ever worked on a campaign: “Double take: Months of canvassing, 43...
Tue, Nov 11 | IvyGate
At Wal-Mart, a final push for Heartland’s voters
CT - The 33-year-old Yale graduate, who made a name for himself in New Haven as the Cold War teaching assistant who wore cowboy boots, is in the final hour of a ...
Tue, Nov 4 | Yale Daily News
A Good Cultural Sign
Wanted to share with you an interesting confluence of events: 1) I wrote a piece for the current National Review on hissing -- one of my least favorite practices, and a subject I've written about regularly in my Impromptus column. In this piece, I pay particular attention to Harvard Law Sch...
Mon, Nov 3 | National Review Online Blogs
Alleged “White Guilt” Spray-Painter is a Tease
Earlier this month, Maureen and I linked to a series of Yale Daily News articles devoted to “WHITE GUILT,” the enigmatic message sprayed rather artlessly on Dwight Hall at Yale, and on buildings at two prep schools nearby. Given the graffiti’s vagueness, it is not surprising that literal...
Thu, Oct 30 | IvyGate
What Is Apple University?
There's a big buzz up the street from me here in New Haven. As the Yale Daily News reports, a few weeks ago Yale School of Management Dean Joel Podolny switched from Blackberry to iPhone. Then he put his Woodbridge, CT home on the market. Wednesday, he announced he was leaving Yale University an...
Fri, Oct 24 | Gearlog
Opinion: Gossip Girl: Bulldogs Blair and Serena Go At It At Yale [Recaps]
Twas young Blair's dream to attend Yale, because it is the most prestigious and be-named-after-a-lock-company'd of all the Ivies (well, not all. Blair contends that there are only three: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. I hate the Ivy system so I don't really know or care. I do know that Cornel...
Tue, Oct 14 | Gawker
Yale celebrates Webster's 250th birthday
Webster is the focus of a commemoration Oct. 16-17 at Yale University to mark his 250th birthday with lectures, an exhibition of memorabilia and a visit to his grave in New Haven. The language of the new nation was up for grabs," Kendall said. "Webster said we're going to speak American Englis...
Sun, Oct 12 | Albany Times Union
Robert Brustein: Remembering Paul Newman
I first met Paul Newman when he was a student at the Yale School of Drama in the late forties. Having recently abandoned that training program in order to help start two acting companies, I nevertheless still had friends at Yale. One of these was the director, Elliott Silverstein, who he told...
Mon, Sep 29 | Huffington Post
Yale law students sue over "the scummiest kind of sexually offensive tripe" at AutoAdmit.
“It’s bringing the right to protect yourself against offensive words and images into the 21st century,” said David N. Rosen, a New Haven, Conn.-based attorney for the students and a senior research scholar in law at Yale Law to the Law Blog in an interview. “This is the scummiest kind of sexua...
Tue, Jun 12 | Althouse
La. students could use Yale financial aid
New Orleans has been my home since birth. But when Katrina hit my hometown, I was at Yale and was relatively removed from the chaos. I watched grim reports on the news. I spoke to my family as they were forced to move from New Orleans to Houston, to...
Tue, Nov 29 | Yale Daily News
Fin. aid meeting sets positive precedent
This week, Yale President Richard Levin did something that the members of the Undergraduate Organizing Committee had pushed for throughout the past three years: He sat down with them. During their 45-minute discussion of Yale's financial aid policies...
Fri, Nov 18 | Yale Daily News
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