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The College Plan BY AN UNDERGRADUATE N about four months, you of the Class of 1945 will be asked to make a decision of great importance-you will be requested to give your preferences as to the College in which you would most enjoy living during your last three years at Yale. It is a problem which should be answered only after con- siderable thought. lf you are interested in Yale, you will be interested in the College Plan. For it has been the saving factor, as Yale increased in size, which has preserved a certain cohesion among the undergraduate body and has pre- vented it from becoming merely an amorphous mass. In earlier days Yale was a small col- lege, and as President Charles Seymour, 1908, has expressed it, it was a family the members of which, Faculty aswell as students, were intensely conscious of the bond that held them together. The students, following the natural tendencies of youth, emphasized the social rather than the intellectual aspects of the bond, and developed that sentiment of solidarity that came to be called Yale Spirit. Four years on the Yale Campus pre- pared the undergraduate not merely for in- tellectual power but for a sense of social responsibility. As Yale increased in size and as the curri- culum became more complex, the original single-unit organization became inadequate. Graduate and professional schools were found- ed. Another undergraduate unit, the Sheffield Scientific School, was set up. The University spirit permeated the institution before the oflicial name College was changed to Univer- sity. But always the undergraduate body was regarded as the soul of Yale. Changes in organization were developed to meet changed conditions. The Class, now as large as the old College, became an undergraduate unit, with its own highly developed erprit :Ze corps, bound always to the other Classes by the sense of loyalty to tl1e larger all-embracing Yale. But as the Classes continued to grow in size, the integrity of the Class as a unit broke down-a return to the principle of the 8 original small College seemed not merely de- sirable but possible, provided it could be given physical expression. It was the generosity of the late Edward S. Harkness, '97, that made this idea possible. In 1930 he provided funds for the building and educational endowment of those Eve quadrangles which are known today as Berke- ley, Calhoun, Davenport, Pierson, and Timo- thy Dwight Colleges. He also gave funds for the remodeling of the Memorial Quadrangle, which had been built from the gift of his mother, Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness. In 1933 the southern portion of Meinorial Quadrangle became Branford College and the northern portion became Saybrook College, and the interiors of some of the dormitories were re- modeled to provide rooms for Fellows, a library, common room, dining hall, and a Master's house for each College. The build- ings which completed Jonathan Edwards College in 1932 were also the gift of the late Edward S. Harkness. Dickinson and W'hee- lock Halls, now part of Jonathan Edwards College, had been constructed in 1926 from the bequest of Robert M. Judson. A ninth College, Trumbull, was ready for occupation in 1933 through a gift provided from the Ster- ling Fund, the Estate of john William Ster- ling, '64. In 1939 work began on the tenth and last quadrangle, Silliman College, made possible by the bequest of Frederick W. Van- derbilt, '76S, and Silliman was opened as a College for the first time in September of 1941. Thus the hopes and dreams of yesterday have become reality. Menubers of the three upper Classes in Yale College, the Sheffield Scientific School, and the Engineering School are now admitted to the various Colleges so far as possible in ac- cordance with their individual preferences. Your preferences cannot always be followed, and you may not be admitted to the College of your first, second, or third choice, but it is also true that the Allocations Committee makes a sincere and thorough effort to follow out your desires.

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Matter . or Mind ? The mithzighf mack . . ' and food for thought im I Of course, the flicks, the blond at Northampton or Poughkeepsie, and many other things inzmage to catch 'the ever-wandering Blue eye. These are all matters of tasteg but here are seven phases 'of life common to all . 3-l e6Al'I'l,el'I,

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Each College has 1tS own drnrng hall rn whrch the members take then meals, and rts own lrbrary and common room provrdrng facrlrtres for readrng 111 serrous and lrght lrter' ature and for socral gatherrngs In addrtron, squash courts, a pool room, prng pong table and a prano are located wrthrn the burld rngs of each College for tl1e convenrence of 1ts members Each College also constrtutes an athletrc un1t and offers undergraduates healthy clean cut competrtron 111 sports through Inter college League play A Mas ter wl1o resrdes rn a house attrched to the College quadrangle, rs 1n ch rrge and 1S assrsted by a group of Faculty members, Fellows of the College, whose studres are rn tl1e quad rangle and who, rf unmarrred have tl1e1r lrvrng quarters there Opportunrty for personal contact wrth the Master and Fellows, to make your educatron a 111ore personal a11d rntrmate experrence, to be for three years 111 close touch wrtl1 cultured and learned men, rs one of tl1e most valuable features offered you under tl1e College Plan As Dem Wrllram Clyde DeVane, 1920 has wrrtten the rrches of the Unrversrty are re qursrtroned, and al111ost all tl1e Colleges num ber lll therr lrsts of Fellows members of the Facultres of all three Undergraduate Schools of the Law School the School of Medrcrne E116 D1V11'l1IIy School, the Forestry School, tl1e Scl1ool ofF1ne Arts, tl1e School of Musrc and tl1e Graduate School and l1ere rf tl1e under gradu rte wrll trke rt, 15 one of tl1e r1cl1est oppor tun1tres rn educat1on that could be offered to hrm Contact wrth these men should qurcken tl1e tempo of l11s developn1e11t, and he ought to complete h1s college career wrth outlook broadened by assocratron wrth varrous types of matured 1111nds Srnce the questron of choos1ng a College wrll nrse rn your mrnds lrter thrs year, rt IS rmportant that you lJCg11'1 now to consrder 3 thrs problem from varrous pornts of vrew, not overlookrng the rmportance of regardrng a College 1n respect to the Master and Fellows, partrcularly the Resrdent Fellows, and therr rnterests It would also be worthwlnle, rf you have hobbres or rnterests wh1cl1 you feel would be advantageous to pursue to rnvestr gate the actrvrtres offered members wrthm the varrous Colleges For example musrcal clubs dramatrc organrzatrons, French tables, Germ rn tables, photogr rphy clubs, publrcatrons mcludrng newspapers, maga zrr1es, and yearbooks, phrlosophy clubs, rnter nat1o11al relatrons clubs, economrcs clubs, pre medrcal clubs, musrc rooms wrth vrcttola and classrcal records, prrntrng shops, carpentry shops, polrtrcal clubs, and debatrng clubs exrst wr th1r1 certarn Colleges Any uppercl ass 111611 may tell you what tl1e org rnrzatrons are rn hrs College ar1d the nature of then program The fact that the contrnued success of the College Plan depends a great deal upon each o11e of you cannot be emphasrzed enough If any College splrts and drvrdes rnto small clrques or groups, the hopes and arms of the College Plan are lost, ar1d tl1e advantages guned over the former larger Yale are to a huge extent destroyed V olu11t try but con centr ated effort upon the p rrt of each member can accomplrsh that group feelrn g of unrty so necessary and each one of you rndrvrdually after allocatron, should be conscrous tl1at you are an actrve member of a partrcular College as well as of the larger Yale Here rs some adv1ce to you from one who 1S deeply rnterested rn the College Plan and 1n Yale Hrst, select your chorce of College o11ly after complete consrderatron of all fac tors rnvolved, secondly after entrance rnto a College put your hear t and soul rnro becomrng an rntegr al part of tl1e College s envrronment, for only through so dorng can you derrve the benefits therefrom 9 J L . C C 1 L 4 4 K , U ' 2 4 . 4 4 . , 4 4 , 4 , 4 4 4 - I . - - , ' 2 . 4 ' 2 ' 4 ' I . K C 1 1 . 4 C n - ' 4 4 2 L 6 C I l l 4 1. . , . L . V I . 4 4 4 . L . l 4 L 2 , 4 , 4 . .1 . . . 1 , ' I L 4 2 ' 4 4 4 . 2 ' 4 4 ' 4 , '4 ' 1' , 4 4 , 4 4 4 , , 6 1 1 L -I C . '. . - 1 . A 6 . ' 2 2 4 4 . . , t . C L l - 4 4 , - I - rr . . 4 . . . A . . . , . L L 2 . . Z . c . . K , . V . I