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The Yale Alumni Magazine is owned and operated by Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation independent of Yale University. The content of the magazine and its website is the responsibility of the editors and does not necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers. |
On October 19, Yale officially marked the 250th anniversary of its founding. A feature of the day was the presence of the presidents or representatives of 41 colleges and universities founded or first headed by Yale graduates. Those attending the celebration assembled in Sterling Memorial Library to don academic costume. Ladies of the University staff were on hand to help the marchers into their gowns. For a short interval, robing occupied the attention of all, but soon thereafter, the room began to resemble the meeting hall of any professional convention. College presidents and professors visited back and forth, exchanging shop talk with an informality that contrasted strangely with their impressive attire. One president, resplendent in the crimson silk of a foreign university, lit up a well-worn corncob, and puffed contentedly on it until the Secretary issued the orders to fall into formation.
Over 26,000 people saw the Brown game on Saturday. There was a time when 10,000 was a big football crowd. Now, 100,000 people want to see the Yale-Harvard game. Where is it to end? Suppose the Bowl were increased to even 125,000, how many years would it be before we should have 150,000 seats demanded? The number of Yale graduates increases by about 400 every year, and each has sisters and cousins and aunts, not to mention male relatives and friends, while the number in the University itself steadily grows. Put with this the evidence of rapidly increasing non-college interest which the crowd at the Brown game shows—and just what is the prospect?
No single individual is playing the unique role of young Atlas of the Campus. No one man is holding more jobs or offices than it is fitting he should hold—all because of a bit of really constructive legislation put through by the Student Council of the College after a referendum vote last spring. Briefly, the number of activities in which an individual may engage is now limited. A man may hold one important job and one only.
I suggest you insert the enclosed in your next issue: Imposter Warning: Yale alumni are warned against a dark, slender, round shouldered man about 30 years old, with one eye apparently of glass. He may claim to be a son of a classmate of the alumnus approached, out of money because of an auto accident after which he had to put up cash bail.
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