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Hallowed ground

Today we learned that, 125 years ago, Yale’s now-iconic statue of Theodore Dwight Woolsey was originally going to sit in front of Durfee Hall. When students protested that the siting would interfere with their regular baseball games on that spot, the university relented.

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