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Time & Change Having so much to look back on, the Class of '17 still prefers to look ahead. Not content with having contributed over a million dollars to the Alumni Fund, they have set aside a sum to be tucked away for tranquil increase until 2017, when it will be given to the graduating class of that year to start its contribution to the Alumni Fund—if there is still such a thing; otherwise, it will go to the Treasurer of Yale. “We do not have any idea of what Yale will be like in 2017,” the Secretary writes, “but we assume our wishes will be carried out.” Just to make sure, they have set up a centennial committee of their own grandchildren to superintend the transfer.
Yale Reports on College Drinking Anyone who still believes that most college students are hard drinkers and that the hip flask is as much of a campus institution as a football helmet or a textbook in economics is hereby advised that it just isn’t so. “I suppose the most encouraging fact brought out by the survey is that the overwhelming majority of college students who drink do so twice a month—or less,” comments Selden D. Bacon, director of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who recently completed a survey of the drinking habits of 16,000 men and women college students. “The prevalence of wild drinking in college is just a myth, and I hope we’ve succeeded in burying it forever.”
Campus Views and News The Pundits recently held their elections, and the results were announced in the News as follows: “All members of the Class of 1932, except the following, have failed thus far to receive election to the Pundits: Howard Page Cross, George Hopper Fitch, Frank Stetson Eddy, John Manning Hall, David Samuel Gamble, and Kuro, a black spaniel residing at 135 Whitney Avenue.”
Survey of Freshmen Following a statistical study of the average age, weight, and height of over 32,000 Yale freshmen, the results show that college freshmen are gradually becoming taller, heavier, and younger. This trend has been confirmed at other colleges throughout the country. The information was compiled from gymnasium records, starting with the freshmen who entered Yale in the fall of 1883. The most striking fact to be found in the tables is the phenomenal increase in the percentage of six-footers. Here indeed is to be found an answer to those who assert that in the “good old days” Yale men were bigger and huskier than those attending college at present.
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