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From the Archives
April 2002

“About the Cover”
November 1953

The Yale Band, in this photograph by A. Burton Street, is entering the Bowl before the Brown game. The caps worn by the players were the object of much undergraduate criticism. They were discarded the following week in an appropriate ceremony held between the halves.

The Graduate Fence
April 1931

I am again moved to protest against the motion pictures sent out from New Haven for the alumni club dinners. Every year, we receive the same wearisome series of views of "Dingbat’s pass to Whosis, intercepted by Soandso." By changing the names in the subtitles, the same pictures could be used year after year. Why must our pictures be limited entirely to the actions of eleven Yale men in the one sport of football? It would seem as if there were endless possibilities for pictures: Commencement, Reunions, Prom Scenes, senior roller-skating, ROTC artillery formation, etc. Any one of these subjects would include more students and show more of their life.

"In the Blue"
April 1970

People are constantly asking me about the dating situation at Yale. There is no "dating situation," at least in the traditional sense. Only once since I have been here has a boy called me up and said in his adolescent voice, "Hi Lucy! Gee, I was wondering what you were doing Saturday night. Nothing? Oh, well, would you like to come up to my room at about 8 o'clock? I have some swell etchings you might like to see." That sort of nonsense ceased early in the year.

"Undergraduate View"
April 1957

Each year, the University publishes "Undergraduate Courses of Study," a kind of educational Sears Roebuck catalogue with complete details about each department and course, told in clear but dull academic prose. Why not incorporate an advertising section in the book? For instance, the Classics Department has a sizable number of essay prizes, which either go begging or are snared by one outstanding student. An ad for this department might read: "Try Classics-the subject that starts paying during your undergraduate days. Why wait for big money jobs after graduation when you can live like Croesus now?”

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