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The Express: November 9, 2007, Taylor University Fort Wayne
The Express: November 9, 2007, Taylor University Fort Wayne
2007-2008 (Volume 12)
Life on the Road with Caleb Goodrich, stage director — TUFW’s Dr. Hensley to Speak at Moody — The Irony of Gendercide — Right to be Wrong: Premarital Sex — Idle Hands Write Silly Articles — Capture the Pumpkin 2007 — Don Quixote de La Manche — How Facebook Has Changed Communication for a Generation — Sports Stats — The Rockin’ Restaurant Review: Klemm’s Kafe
Becoming A Yale Man: Intimacy Among Yale Students In The Nineteenth Century, Matthew Busick
Becoming A Yale Man: Intimacy Among Yale Students In The Nineteenth Century, Matthew Busick
Kaplan Senior Essay Prize for Use of Library Special Collections
This essays demonstrates that relationships between men at Yale College in the nineteenth century were largely the product of the environment in which they occurred. The atmosphere on campus was such that intense intimacy between men was not an anomaly or a perversion, but rather a culmination of the deep bonds forged among all students. Behavior that in another time and place would have aroused suspicion was perfectly acceptable on campus grounds. The elite background of the students, the fact that the school was predominantly Christian, the nature of the college as an all-boys institution, the pressure on the students …