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“Durer Comes Home” Somewhere out in the cold, cruel world of crime is a thief with a keen appreciation of art—and a warm heart. The thief recently mailed an anonymous package to the Yale Art Gallery. Inside was an Albrecht Durer engraving, valued at $25,000, which was stolen from the gallery in 1969. The print, entitled Adam and Eve, was dated 1504. The Yale campus police and the FBI are investigating the benign mystery.
“‘Neath the Elms” The prom, held this year on February 28, brought with it the usual flood of telegrams and phone calls, the frenzied attempts to secure hotel reservations, the worry about exchanging dances and where to go afterwards, the fraternity affairs, and the cocktail parties. New Haven’s milkmen, forewarned by experience, armed themselves with extra bottles of their product and had no trouble selling them on the morning of March 1 to weary prom-trotters who, seated on the Elm City’s curbs, gratefully consumed the soothing liquid.
”The Ladies” In his third pamphlet on the history of the Law School, Professor Frederick C. Hicks has an account of the first attempts by women to take a Yale law course. In 1872, a graduate of 1852, later a lieutenant governor of Connecticut, wrote to the Law School asking whether it was “far advanced enough to admit young women to your School.” He had a candidate and asked for a decision, though he hedged a bit by adding: “In theory, I am in favor of their studying and practicing law, provided they are ugly, but I should fear a handsome woman before a jury.” The Yale Corporation was startled at such an innovation. The application seems to have been picked up with the President’s fireside tongs and gingerly “laid on the table.”
”The Week” Skeptical at first as to the practical usefulness of an “intelligence” test of undergraduates, we confess that the statistics just compiled by the department of psychology concerning Yale freshmen are extraordinarily interesting. Fathers of Yale freshmen will naturally be pleased when they hear that 85 per cent of the freshmen fell into the “very superior” “A” class. The practical uses of these tests, if they are carried out annually, will of course have to do with weeding out the intellectually unfit. The tests will give the faculty a clear notion of what every student may be expected to do and of what students had better be dropped so as not to retard the rest of the class. Yale is no place for laggards, or even those not mentally intelligent enough to stand the pace that ought to be set for the better men.
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