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“Light & Verity” Each weeknight after dinner, Charles Forrest ’83 would relax in front of the television and watch the game show Jeopardy! In his imagination, he no longer was a second-year law student at the University of Michigan. Instead, he was the contestant—confident, cool, and poised behind his podium perch, the first to answer the trivia questions from the game board with an agile flick of his wrist upon the electronic buzzer. Last July, a fantasy became reality, and Forrest made his debut on national television as a Jeopardy! contestant. But even in his daydreams, he never imagined he would leave Los Angeles with a jackpot of $72,800. Forrest admits watching Jeopardy! every night was probably the best preparation. “Of course, I’m sure my Yale education was instrumental,” he said. Winning Jeopardy! may have been Forrest’s easiest task. Now he must spend his prize money. He said ruefully, “I’ve done everything I wanted to do, and I still have $70,000 left!”
“Undergraduate Colleges” They tell me that on clear days you can see across Silliman’s quadrangle. Beyond the fact that several football games could be played at once within its cavernous midst, Salamanders are particularly proud of their five squash courts, abundance of athletes, perfect unity of architecture, and ladies’ powder room.
“Yale Annual Play” The annual play of the Yale Dramatic Association, New Men and Old Acres, was given at the Hyperion Theatre. The play was the least effective the Association has given since its formation in 1900, and this was not from any fault of the actors themselves … The principal fault was with the play itself. The humor in the play often did not touch the audience. The action was slow. Its serious love scenes were impossible for men playing to men in the female roles, and became farcical when the tender lines brought spontaneous bursts of laughter from the audience.
“Ten Scientific Bodies” At the meeting of the American Psychological Association, which met in the Psychological Laboratory and Osborn Hall, Professor Scripture of Yale, in his paper on “Some New Apparatus Used at Yale,” described one that induces anesthesia by electricity. It has not been sufficiently perfected yet to render teeth-extraction painless, but it can render any portion of the skin numb for a time.
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