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During the summer, the national news media gave extended coverage to a new form of arthritis, "Lyme Arthritis," named for the Connecticut River town where a concentration of cases has been discovered. A study by a team of researchers at the School of Medicine suggests the disease may be caused by a virus carried by an insect [or] a tick. On July 10, the Yale doctors appeared at a public meeting in Lyme to explain their preliminary findings and to reassure the townspeople concerning the relative mildness of the arthritis.
A recent incident in Java dispelled any doubt that Yale men are widely dispersed. The Endowment Fund Committee, seeking assistance, asked me to interview Yale men of "my vicinity." No two of the improbable sounding addresses were the same, and no one could be reached with less than weeks of travel. The prospect of my effectively assisting the drive seemed remote, but I mailed a letter to each graduate listed. The effect was like that of a Roderick Dhuwhistle -- Yale heads popped up on all sides. Cordial responses in a wholly unexpected number testified eloquently to the fact the remotest portions of the globe have their share of Yale men, whose interest in the University appears to be inversely proportional to their distance from it.
Here is a chance for Yale men. The company having the roller chair concession at the St. Louis World's Fair put out the following advertisement: "Wanted: College boys to push roller chairs on the World's Fair grounds; must be not less than five feet seven inches tall and not less than 140 pounds in weight." In Paris, Chicago, and Buffalo, many college men did this sort of work, and people who claim to know said that much money was made and that many romances grew out of the work. That the company is aware of this would appear from the published interview with one of its officers in which he says: "Although the company wishes to employ the brightest of the student population of the universities of the country, it wants men who can wheel chairs and talk engagingly to their fares without making 'goo-goo eyes' at the young girls." That interview may lessen the replies to the advertisement. |
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