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SUNDAY MORNING SHINE. lvy on Wallis Yale variety, will cover a building in twenty-three weeks. where, crowding restaurants from Bridge- port to New London. Bfnk and Gwladys went to Hamburger Heaven on Post Road. Typical menu for Yalemen and their dates Was: Martinis Puree lVlongole Martinis Roast Beef Apple Pie Coffee After dinner lVlartinis Activities in the evening Were diverse. Some went to fraternity dancesg Bfnk and I BFNK AND GWLADYS stroll on Cross Campus. Man in background is carrying his shirts to laundry. Gwladys turned up at St. Elmo hop. Others Went to production of schmaltzy Student Prince at local Shubert Theatre. Most Went right on drinking Martinis till morningls Wee hours. I Next day was more subdued. The more devout roused themselves out in time for eleven ogclock service at Yaleis historic downstate Romanesque Battell Chapel. lVlost were out of hed, sipping pre-luncheon lVlartinis by one. The afternoon was spent in quiet drinking, half-hearted attempts at seduction. By seven all but a handful of Yalemen had put their girls on train and were ready for traditional uglad-theyire GIRLS ARE ATTENDING advanced stage of week end party. Their dates are under table in foreground 29

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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

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STUDENT WHO DECIDED to study during weekend buys pencils from campus salesman on Saturday night. gonew party on Sunday evening. Their friends whisked the couple to the railroad station in a l91L7lf3 lVlercury convertible, drove at high speed to avoid arrest. A socialite crowd filled the platform as Gwladys and Agamemnon tendered fare- Wells. Gwladys curtsied, then thanked her lieau eilusively. Said she. HI mean, it was TWO COUPI-ES REI-AX after busy day. Pair at left discuss undifferentiated aesthetic continuum in Burmese. u WHIFFS ENTERTAIN- Average Yaleman Hnds it hard to tell Whiff songs apart, hut experts can dis- lingiush. Couples, who sit placidly on floor, find listen- ing more agreeable than dancing or making conversation. really a line type Weekendf' As fast trains hurtled northward hearing tired college girls and Gwladys remem- liered her duties at the Knick, Bfnk and other Yalemen, settling down to eveningis drinking, could know that weekend was over. -IGNATIUS NIATTINGLY MAN DUST5 HANDS after climbing fence to get into closed dance. Roundabout entrance is exhilerating. 30