Yale University - Banner / Pot Pourri Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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-Q, - --X f - ,ai , ft ,f ,f ,f f V , , V foe MYMZWC QQUQJ 66 y f feegwlff Typical Couple Models tor Mattingly Investigation and Banner Photographer Millions of middle-class Americans think of a Yale weekend only in terms of Dorothy Parkerls famous epigram. ls it true? The BANNER,S photographer decided to investi- gate a Yale-Princeton weekend, followed Yaleman Orestes Bfnk and date, Cwladys Eyesore, through various stages of hysteria, intoxication, D.T.'s, sex mania, and final coma. Bfnk, love child of shoelace tycoon Agamemnon Bfnk, went to New England's swank, rank Phillips Escalator Academy. He is now a Freshman, will probably be dropped at end of term. Gwladys, like many Yale dates, is a waitress at the '4Knick'7, exclusive New Haven nightspot. That Bfnk should invite Gwladys is typical of demo- cratic Yale. The pair were deeply in love BETWEEN HALVES, they munch hotdogs. Man in background may be Harold Ickes, or somebody else. by end of weekend. Commented Gwladys later: i'Orestes is a nice type guy, I mean, cul15urecl. Bfnk, recuperating at infirmary, was unavailable for comment. Yale weekends, according to experts, fall into two classes, ubign and Mlittlew. Big weekends are those of Princeton 81 Harvard games, ,lunior Prom, begin on Friday and last till girl or escort drop dead from ex- haustion. Little weekends begin on Satur- day, last just as long. Yale's old-timers, however, told BANNER,S photographer that the current crop of weekends is mild com- pared to those before World War' ll. Long- est weekend in Yale was in fall of l933, lasted 73 days. Girls refused to leave, but were finally persuaded by government troops that the party was over. This led to the much criticized Smith-Conover Act. AT GAME they cheer lustily, inanely. Man in fore- ground suffers from dandruff. Crowd does not notice.

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Gaclaling crowd at halftime instruction in communications, mainte- nance, photography, and armaments, two and three times a week. Some 3,600 V-12's and Marines followed a four-term course to gain degrees and prepare for midship- manls school, while the ASTP turned out 3,400 engineers and linguists. Other Army men were engrossed in lVlilitary Intelli- gence, Civil Affairs, or the Asiatic Staff Of- ficers' School. Meanwhile those members of the faculty who were not in the armed forces or in Washington were equally busy instructing future officers and performing valuable re- search in plastics, gases, synthetic rubber, high altitude flight, and in the nature of life on little-known Pacific islands. And finally, when the job was done, the task of reconversion began. Nor is it too much to say that the job of returning to peace has been done as well as the less pleasant task of war-making. Phases of this reconyersion follow, not necessarily in or- der of importance, but as they symbolize a Yale at peace. One symbol, important to many, was the football weekend. Knights without armor Nassaa's implausible brats in a mild melee 25

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GW'-ADY5 AND BFNK enjoy gag at cocktail party. Girl at right learns about Five Year Plan from man in dark suit. THEY DANCE al St. Elmo, fashionable Yale fraternity. But most 1947 Yalis are grateful that an accident of the Gregorian calendar sep- arates one weekend from the next by at least five days. Whereas all is gaiety and charm on Saturday and Sunday, the students, as they are called in New Haven judiciary chambers, have little to say at other times. Many professors, upon consideration, term this good. ,.v:,ax ar THEY DRINK at St. Elmo. Liquid in glasses is tra ditional Sl. Elm0's Fire. Girl at right misses joke LEAVING ST. E L Nl O' S , Cwladys, Bfnk smile happily. LATE NEXT DAY, they say goodbye at train. Train reached Meriden before Gwladys remem- bered she was not Smith girl.