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From the Archives
March
2003
Each
weeknight after dinner, Charles
Forrest '83 would relax in front of the television and watch the
game show Jeopardy. In his imagination, he no longer was a second-year law student at
the University of Michigan. Instead, he was the contestant -- confident,
cool, and poised behind his podium perch, the first to answer the
trivia questions from the game board with an agile flick of his
wrist upon the electronic buzzer. Last July, a fantasy became reality,
and Forrest made his debut on national television as a Jeopardy contestant. But even in his daydreams, he never imagined he
would leave Los Angeles with a jackpot of $72,800. Forrest admits
watching Jeopardy every night was probably the best preparation.
"Of course, I'm sure my Yale education was instrumental," he said.
Winning Jeopardy may have been Forrest's easiest task. Now
he must spend his prize money. He said ruefully, "I've done everything
I wanted to do, and I still have $70,000 left!"
"Light
& Verity"
February 1986
They
tell me that on clear days you can see across Silliman's quadrangle.
Beyond the fact
that several football games could be played at once within its cavernous
midst, Salamanders are particularly proud of their five squash courts,
abundance of athletes, perfect unity of architecture, and ladies'
powder room.
"Undergraduate
Colleges"
February 1942
The annual
play of the Yale Dramatic Association, New Men and Old Acres, was given at the Hyperion Theatre.
The play was the least effective the Association has given since
its formation in 1900, and this was not from any fault of the actors
themselves . . . The principal fault was with the play itself. The
humor in the play often did not touch the audience. The action was
slow. Its serious love scenes were impossible for men playing to
men in the female roles, and became farcical when the tender lines
brought spontaneous bursts of laughter from the audience.
"Yale
Annual Play"
April 1904
At the
meeting of the American Psychological Association, which
met in the Psychological Laboratory and Osborn Hall, Professor Scripture
of Yale, in his paper on "Some New Apparatus Used at Yale," described
one that induces anesthesia by electricity. It has not been sufficiently
perfected yet to render teeth-extraction painless, but it can render
any portion of the skin numb for a time.
"Ten
Scientific Bodies"
January 1900 |
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