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From the Archives At the
beginning of the season, there was a good deal of fear that the
many servicemen stationed at Yale,
a lot of whom owed allegiance to former alma maters, would not be
overinterested in the progress of the Yale team. So far, results
have been extremely encouraging. Looking down from the press box
in the Bowl,
it was quite a sight to see Sections 15 and 16 dotted with seamen's
white hats, as well as the many tan fatigue caps of Marine and Army
trainees. The cheering this year has been better than ever, possibly
because the new trainees stationed here and conferred with the rank
of undergraduate honoris causa by the University, so to speak,
have remained uninhibited by the prewar social dictum which decreed
that a man should show as little emotion as possible. Professor
Wilbur
Owen Atwater of Wesleyan
presented results of his experiments
"On the Nutritive Action of Alcohol."
He had kept a man in a tight box, given him certain amounts of alcohol
along with his food, watched carefully his temperature, excretions,
and pulse, weighed very minutely everything introduced and removed,
and finally calculated the exact results of the alcohol in the man.
He concludes that in small quantities alcohol has definite nutritive
value: that it can do the same work as solid food in replacing worn-out
tissue. However, in the long run, it tends to disturb the nervous
system. On the
grass
of the Cross
Campus scores of young people joined hands and stomped around
in a large circle chanting
"Grass not glass; grass has class." Ostensibly a protest of the
threatened installation of library skylights on the Cross Campus,
the activity was only one of many at a fancy-free spring fair held
at Yale after Easter . . . On the steps
of Sterling
Library actors in 19th-century costume presented a one-act melodrama
about "the failure of mechanized communication to bring people close
together." Balloons popped, folk dancers entertained, and boys decoratively
painted the legs of their girlfriends. One enthusiastic passerby
observed, "Rampant symbolism, I really dig it." An editor
of the Yale
Lit, writing in the department of Notabilia, has deplored
the unpopularity of the Chittenden
Library: "A
mass of rules, regulations, and red tape seems to exist for no other
purpose except to make the drawing of a volume as difficult as possible."
Professor F. B. Dexter, assistant librarian of Yale, said in response
to the matter of giving students access to the shelves that such
a plan was not possible in a library of nearly 300,000 volumes,
and that it was not done in any library of like size in the world.
The obstacles to its success were not so much the loss of books,
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Yale
Alumni Magazine, PO Box 1905, New Haven, CT 06509-1905. USA.
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