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“Undergraduate Month” 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.
“Alcohol as Food” 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.
“What Is the Meaning of This?” 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.”
“Chittenden Library” 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, but disarrangement of the shelves through carelessness.
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