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From the Archives As a member of one
of the Olde Curmudgeon Classes at Yale, I have spent the past three
weeks, since the arrival of the June issue of YAM, attempting
to marshal my thoughts of righteous indignation at the very idea
of featuring an actress on the cover our alumni magazine. Yet, as
the days pass, I grow more and more in my admiration of the intelligent
beauty of Meryl Streep, and I am forced to conclude that protest
would be stupid and futile. It is, in brief and in one reader's
opinion, the loveliest cover ever to grace your publication.
The University Dramatic
Association announced last week that it would give as its Christmas
play this year T. W. Robertson's military comedy, Ours. E.
M. Woolley '11, who produced An Ideal Husband and Troilus
and Cressida with unusual success last year, is in charge of
the production. The play deals, in an amusing way, with the transformation
of a London dandy into a first-class fighting man in the Crimean
war.
"Lottery -- Nov. 25,
1889: A Loving Fellow Creature." The inscription was weathered but
still legible on a small flat stone marking a grave in the lot behind
Yale's personnel office at 143 Elm St. "Lottery" was one of a series
of pet monkeys belonging to Justine Ingersoll, who once resided
at the address. According to legend, the deed by which the property
was transferred to Yale specified that the grave should never be
violated. But in December, workmen removed the stone and explored
the grave for remains. Only a small broken bone, of unknown origin,
was found. The headstone was relocated at the rear of the lot, and
workmen turned the rest of the site into a parking area.
Although both words
and music of "Goodnight, Harvard" are attributed to Douglas Moore
'15, we were recently tipped off to the fact that Moore had a collaborator
-- a Mr. Philip Mechem. Scenting a contribution to Yale memorabilia,
we took the liberty of dropping Mechem a line. He replied: "Doug
Moore and I were intimate friends all through our Hotchkiss days.
He told me he had the idea of writing the song 'Goodnight, Harvard'
and had sketched out a few lines and most of the tune. I took over,
and, as far as I know, all of the lines, except the title, are my
contribution to Americana." At the time the song was written, Mechem
shunned all credit. You can appreciate why when we tell you that
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