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

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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.

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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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OLD-CLOTHES-IVIAN 'Ti-Bitcku is Yale tradition, claims that his real. christened name is Sears and Roe The Princeton weekend began for great majority of Yalemen after the class Sat- urday morning. By noon the New Haven railroad depot was jammed with girls hail- ing from the so-called UBig Sevenw women,s colleges: Smith, Vassar, Holyoke, Welles- ley, Radcliffe, Sarah Lawrence, Burning Stump f0kla.j Female Seminary. Bfnk called for his girl at service entrance of Knick. Dates and escorts gulped down quick Martinis, even quicker lunches, rushed to STUDENT PURCHASES PAPER from Jerry. Pile of magazines shows Jerry overestimated the demand. board quaint, old-fashioned open trolleys which bore them out to the Yale Bowl. These trolleys are generally so crowded that conductor cannot collect fares in the ordi- nary way, but must jump from one couple to the next, hanging on to the girl with vice- like grip as he takes fare from escort. Oddly enough, New Haven youths dream of day when they can be trolley conductors, though job pays only S15 weekly. Once at bowl, the young people fussed Sz fumed until kick-off, paid little attention to game afterwards. Students really inter- ested in game stayed in their rooms and listened to it on the radio. Crowd at bowl watched lazily as football player Levi ,lack- son, spectator Bfnk, made passes. It was a chilly day. Traditional hip Hasks, tra- UNIDENTIFIED VASSAR GIRL tries tricky bank shot. She flubbed il, probably because she is cross eyed ditional racoon coats kept Yalemen warm. Traditional Yalemen kept girls warm. Yale won. After the game, dates 81 escorts hurried back to campus, gathered in various rooms for cocktails. Some parties lasted far into evening, resulting in scenes like that depic- ted by cut on lower right of page. Then, staggering, blind drunk, approximately 3,000 young people tried to get into lVlory's. A lucky few succeeded, most went else- 28