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The new David S. Ingalls hockey rink out on Prospect Street is coming along. Because of its striking structure, the rink is referred to as "the roller coaster," "the pregnant whale," and "the turtle." These somewhat irreverent names have not bothered architect Eero Saarinen who said in a recent edition of the Hockey Newsletter: "What intrigues me most is to imagine archeologists 5,000 years from now digging in New Haven and first coming across prehistoric bones in the Peabody Museum and then not so far away from there finding this huge dinosaur-like skeleton. What kind of history will they reconstruct about what formidable creatures Yale men were in the mid-20th century?"
"Notes from Ray Tompkins House" February, 1958

 

There are enough laughs at Yale to cool many a teapot. For instance, there's the story of an undergraduate last year who nailed two holes in his wall in order to put up some pictures close together. An agent of the service bureau, however, one day informed the student that he'd be fined $3 for each hole. When the indignant student calmed down, he made it a point to be quite certain that the bureau charged a flat rate, regardless of the hole. He then cheerfully took a nearby axe, chipped out the area between the holes, paid the flabbergasted agent $3, and resolutely returned to his work.
"Undergraduate Month" April, 1951

 

Right here one must pay tribute to the foresight of the Silliman College designers. Its rooms contain plugs to be used for television sets.
"'Neath the Elms" October, 1940

 

A short time ago I read an article written by Mr. Edwin A. Abbey, in which attention is called to the crying need of an American art school possessing a complete set of dormitories. The terrible conditions and hardships under which students must live in Paris are vividly described by the writer, who adds that there is no reason why, in the very near future, as good work can not be done in America as in France. I am a lawyer by profession and know nothing about art. I am, however, very much impressed by the logic of Mr. Abbey's article. Is it not possible for the Yale Art School to take advantage of this very opportunity?
"As to an American Art School" October, 1903 

 
     
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