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From the Archives Having
so much to look back on, the Class of '17 still prefers to look
ahead. Not content with having contributed over a million dollars
to the Alumni Fund, they have set aside a sum to be tucked away
for tranquil increase until 2017, when it will be given to the graduating
class of that year to start its contribution to the Alumni Fund
-- if there is still such a thing; otherwise, it will go to the
Treasurer of Yale. "We do not have any idea of what Yale will be
like in 2017," the Secretary writes, "but we assume our wishes will
be carried out." Just to make sure, they have set up a centennial
committee of their own grandchildren to superintend the transfer. Anyone
who still believes that most college students are hard drinkers
and that the hip flask is as much of a campus institution as a football
helmet or a textbook in economics is hereby advised that it just
isn't so. "I suppose the most encouraging fact brought out by the
survey is that the overwhelming majority of college students who
drink do so twice a month -- or less," comments Selden D. Bacon,
director of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who recently completed
a survey of the drinking habits of 16,000 men and women college
students. "The prevalence of wild
drinking in college is just a myth, and I hope we've succeeded
in burying it forever." The
Pundits recently held their elections, and the results were announced
in the News as follows: "All members of the Class of 1932,
except the following, have failed thus far to receive election to
the Pundits: Howard Page Cross, George Hopper Fitch, Frank Stetson
Eddy, John Manning Hall, David Samuel Gamble, and Kuro, a black
spaniel residing at 135 Whitney Avenue." Following
a statistical study of the average age, weight, and height of over
32,000 Yale freshmen, the results show that college freshmen are
gradually becoming taller, heavier, and younger. This trend has
been confirmed at other colleges throughout the country. The information
was compiled from gymnasium records, starting with the freshmen
who entered Yale in the fall of 1883. The most striking fact to
be found in the tables is the phenomenal increase in the percentage
of six-footers. Here indeed is to be found an answer to those who
assert that in the "good old days" Yale men were bigger and huskier
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Alumni Magazine, PO Box 1905, New Haven, CT 06509-1905. USA.
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