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

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One-fourth are transferred from other colleges variety of preconceptions to be found in the group queried. To sum up the first part of our ex- amination of the sort of man to be dis- cussed, perhaps the most significant generalizations which can be made are that: QU Most Yalemen are veterans, but would have been attending this uni- versity regardless of governmental assistance. 12, hlost are products of the eastern prep school system rather than pub- lic or tutorial secondary education, and a surprising number have also attended other colleges or universities. Q3jThe income groups represented fall almost entirely within the top SLK, ofthe national figures, and most lie in the 55,000-520,000 group. SPENDING AND VICES . . . Today's Yaleman probably is little different in his personal life from most L 3' abil We - ,A X HARVARD young Americans of his general eco- nomic level. He is not the hard-drink- ing, high - living Ugaycollege - boy depicted in the cinebiographies of song writers, as the results of the Banner Survey quite clearly show. Two out of three Yalemen spend nearly all of their weekends Cthree or four a monthj in New Haven, even Below is graphed the approximate income differential represented in Yale Uni- versity in the spring of 1948. --.--

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llljilll llflg Lil if-'LJ ff 4 UD UUE U UEIU ' 'i' 'f' M 5 A , ,Z ,, 3 5 FINANCES . . . ln an attempt to evaluate the en- vironment which has created the 'lYale animal , the editors of the Banner sought a response to a question with doubts as to the number who would reply. Fully aware of the natural reluctance of most Americans to dis- cuss his personal rinances, they in- quired as to how you estimate your Veteran .... 1941 A551 l 'nl Prep school Vs High SCl'lO0l- ' Each symbol represents approximately 950 Yalemen annual family incomefl and listed four broad groupings: Qlj Less than 5E5,000, C21 35,000-5l0,000, Q35 il0,000, 5l0,000-iS20,000, Q45 SE20,000-550,000 Of the 400 men in the sample group Csee explanation, page one this sec- tionl only 20 omitted this question from their furnished replies, and the reader can best, We think, adjust for this number Where he sees ht. As the accompanying graph indi- cates, nearly 3X5 of those queried place themselves in the middle groupsv, the 35,000-520,000 bracket, While 3X5 of these, again, could be found in the 555,000-3l0,000 area. Above and below this dominant percentage were found exactly equal numbers, each ap- proximately lf5 of the total under- graduate body. In detail it Was noted that 4623 of Yalemen quoted a family income of over Sl0,000, which is, per- haps, the clearest indication of the Veteran ...... 1 948 W2 'K' 5, N X? r Qs D gps Q Xx X 154 i-QE V, 3 T lat

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Wild collegiate abandon is to be found only in out-of-the-way corners in New Haven. Most drink in moderation. with the exception of the football sea- son, and most would bitterly acknowl- edge that the opportunities for com- plete collegiate abandon in the Elm City are sharply delineated by the night-sticks of the city's Hnnestw. And over half spend an average or less than 330 dollars per month for social activ- ity, including fraternity bills, football tickets, etc. About the same percentage see less than three movies per month, while only one-fifth possess that most essential Hollywood prop, the auto- mobile . . . jalopy or Cadillac. There are, of course, a small number Whose social activity is on a more ela- borate scale, but to What extent these are not Utypicalll may be born out by the following figures: Did you smoke before coming to Yale? 14 Only one in ten spend no Weekends Within these hallowed Walls in an average non-football-season month. As is mentioned elsewhere, only l3'Z, are fraternity members, although a Uliushl' 3.575 spend over 5100 a month on social activities .... And a mere 302, admitted to owning a pair of rw ll L K l wh ' '