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From the Archives
History
is about to repeat itself on the Old Campus. Indian clubs, gas fixtures,
and perhaps even a moose head will once again be seen in Durfee,
Lawrance, and Welch Halls. As part of the project to renovate dormitories,
three suites will be restored to what they looked like 60 to 100
years ago. The rooms will be open during the summer as part of the
campus tour. It is hoped that the period furnishings in at least
one of the rooms can be retained during the academic year so that
students particularly interested in American culture can have the
opportunity to live in such surroundings. Of Dan
X's six puppies, the three females are automatically ineligible
for consideration as the next Yale mascot. Male bulldogs only need
apply for the title of "Handsome
Dan." Prior to the arrival of Dan IX, however, Horace Barnes
'19 nearly got away with a fast shuffle under a blanket, by which
one of his female bulldogs became "Dan-for-a-Day" at the
Dartmouth game in 1953. A sharp-eyed picture editor told all the
following Monday. It seems
to the writer that the worst enemies that Yale University has are
the academic men; they get their AB, hike to Harvard for their law
work, and leave the building of the Yale Law School to graduates
from other institutions. By Yale men going to Harvard, it causes
others to wonder and to follow the footsteps of Yale men. We think
it about time that some of you academic men stand by Yale better
than you have. In an
effort to humanize the admissions process, the admissions committee
invited applicants to submit projects, such as art portfolios or
music compositions. Among the responses were some rather unconventional
samples of "art" -- including, for example, a loaf of homemade
bread. "Some very distinctive projects were submitted,"
says Jane Morrison, assistant director of undergraduate admissions.
"However, some of the more amusing ones didn't affect the candidate's
chances in a positive way." So the moral of the story is: Mozart
is more important than macrame -- more important, that is, if you want
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Yale
Alumni Magazine, PO Box 1905, New Haven, CT 06509-1905. USA.
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