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

Page 13 text:

,., H- 'rv-.A ix, , - 41 Q Kr 17 fr, 9 M x:.,,,7 lar: Q i m The group questioned was four hundred men selected according to their college residence, class, field of interest, and other background factors. The Banner Survey is an attempt to evaluate major trends in the thinking of the undergraduate body of Yale University. The questions asked were composed by the pooled talents of the Banner board, With the additions of the Deans of the Yale College, the Engineering School, and the leaders of most of the organizations function- ing on the campus. After checking, winnowing, and rechecking, the tenta- tive list of questions Was presented to public opinion eXpert , hir. Leon- ard Doob of the Psychology Depart- ment for checking against biases. This process again was supervised by Mr. Doob, and rechecks indicate that ,QP -S the final group to which the question- N, naire Was submitted was Within three to seven percent representative of the undergraduate body. The replies were ly Q tabulated by means of I. B. lNl. ma- ' chines furnished by Mr. Jellinek of the Department of Applied Physiology. Results of the tabulation constitute the fl P framework for the next tvventy-seven X62 pages of the l948 Yale Banner. C vw f TT-T cs 3 4 7 I tgl II-. Six L-IQRPQKY E7 9 G A x 1 a A XE dr T-f , D-M f q ,. Y gp '5 i S

Page 12 text:

- 94 9 435' - 2 .. '32, .., , 1 0... - I '59 L JM' fs ,A Ye L Lfiiafn, 1,1 , 'flfryz Ag 'Ha 5 'Q 1 ,Y FYFQXZ. ' J . L,, , ,ff ,g u ' . -, .17 ' fi ' ' 1. Aff: ' f ,. - '.: l '. M1522 . A jf f :fs Lf , , up uf: 1 'il , ' Q, -JJ, 'f -' 41 , A ., M 1 99 1 4.. ,ff 1 , , '. iff' f L '7 , . ? . . . , A. z A' f f . . f vet' ,fi rf? My- , ff! f, I if 415 , 5, ' IQQZ4: ,Y , ff 2, ., if 3' gf? 4: ? zz 2 Z I f , 5 N. K ' Q vjfflf' 'gh' .1 37 f -f 21.051, P , ' 9 u F171 . 5151- - ,kin Apu, A . 3 ' img - f - viii f'Z:aF f .Kb V ,, . fo 4 J , . ,, . f 'f:,,- , - 922 4551, ' ' . f - . ' if . 9' fl , , , ,. J., gf-,iq ibxk,-2' 5,1 1., ' . 'fff , gf' I Nj' . ' - iZ'.'lQ,'.fi,?z,, 1 1.11151-: 16 -5-: ,V , wwf?-2?w . , . 3:34 1 1 1 '57, . ef ,-6 4 5 ' 5,5 L: jx :T H. A :L ll rj l. 1 .f P., f,- 1

Page 14 text:

THE BANNER SURVEY Take any Yale undergraduate you meet in G 51. H, and the chances are almost exactly 3 out of 5 that he is a veteran. The predominance of khaki's and 'lsea-stori-esll have lead to a pop- ular tendency to ascribe certain atti- tudes 'fnew to Yale as due to Hthis vet- eran elementf' The Banner Survey sought to investigate the ehiciacy of this assumption, and the results seem to indicate little difference between this and a Unormalll student body- except for a few years greater experi- ence. ln the first place nearly two-thirds of these veterans were actually in at- tendance in the Old Yale of pre-GI Bill days. Consequently it seems that the admixture of 'Knew blood has not yet been of tremendous sociological significance, particularly since the 2X3 figure quoted above does not include either those admitted Qbut who had not attendedj or those who had full inten- tion of becoming Yalemen, but had not gone -through the motions of appli- cation. The impact of the war on this group is an intangible which cannot be measured in specihc groups of ques- tions, but it might be interesting to check the background data unearthed by the Survey against a few often-eX- pressed popular impressions of the sort of man who is attending Yale at this time. The numerically dominant Htypell attending Yale today is a product of the small, private or 'fprepl' schools of the Northeast Cand a scattering of such institutions of the Far West and Nlid- dle Statesj. Sixty per cent are found in this group. It may surprise some, however, to discover that a fifth of the undergraduates can compare this uni- versity not only with their secondary schools, but with another college or university. Quite obviously the V-l2, V-5, and ASTP Training Programs account for a large proportion of this number. The fact that over lOO0 men chose to continue their education here rather than at another college or university indicates something of the drawing power of Yale on those who have been exposed to its life, and this raises an- other question which was touched upon on in the answers received from the sample group. Why did this group of 5,600 men originally come to Yale? Here too the response may seem a little startling to those who still think of the university as a Hhereditary elite, for to the question Did any of your fam- ily Cblood relativesj go to Yale? only a little over a third answered in the afiirmative. It seems important again to emphasize that this proportion in all probability would have been approxi- mately the same, war or no war.