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From the Archives
On October
19, Yale officially marked the 250th anniversary of its founding.
A feature of the day was the presence of the presidents or representatives
of 41 colleges and universities founded or first headed by Yale
graduates. Those attending the celebration assembled in Sterling
Memorial Library to don academic costume. Ladies of the University
staff were on hand to help the marchers into their gowns. For a
short interval, robing occupied the attention of all, but soon thereafter,
the room began to resemble the meeting hall of any professional
convention. College presidents and professors visited back and forth,
exchanging shop talk with an informality that contrasted strangely
with their impressive attire. One president, resplendent in the
crimson silk of a foreign university, lit up a well-worn corncob,
and puffed contentedly on it until the Secretary issued the orders
to fall into formation.
Over
26,000 people saw the Brown game on Saturday. There was a time when
10,000 was a big football crowd. Now, 100,000 people want to see
the Yale-Harvard game. Where is it to end? Suppose the Bowl were
increased to even 125,000, how many years would it be before we
should have 150,000 seats demanded? The number of Yale graduates
increases by about 400 every year, and each has sisters and cousins
and aunts, not to mention male relatives and friends, while the
number in the University itself steadily grows. Put with this the
evidence of rapidly increasing non-college interest which the crowd
at the Brown game shows -- and just what is the prospect?
No single
individual is playing the unique role of young Atlas of the Campus.
No one man is holding more jobs or offices than it is fitting he
should hold -- all because of a bit of really constructive legislation
put through by the Student Council of the College after a referendum
vote last spring. Briefly, the number of activities in which an
individual may engage is now limited. A man may hold one important
job and one only.
I suggest
you insert the enclosed in your next issue: Imposter Warning:
Yale alumni are warned against a dark, slender, round shouldered
man about 30 years old, with one eye apparently of glass. He may
claim to be a son of a classmate of the alumnus approached, out
of money because of an auto accident after which he had to put up
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Yale
Alumni Magazine, PO Box 1905, New Haven, CT 06509-1905. USA.
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