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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 ' '

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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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white shoes, some with the comment that the 'lNavy made me buy them! On a more personal level, the aver- age undergraduate has about the same habits as most men of his age. Only SZ, get more than an average of eight hours of sleep per night, and three out of hve stated that they averaged less than that figure. 6375 admitted to get- ting less than three hours of real exercise in a week, while l-Uk said they got none at all. In the Hathletic group comprising the remainder, only l2fZ, said they got more than eight hours of exercise. In the realm of vices, again we must concede to Dr. Kinsey, but Hsmoking and drinkingw at Yale is not of striking proportions. While over half CSSLZQJ did not drink Cone drink a week or morej before coming to Yale, and only l3fZ, now profess to total abstin- ence, the effect of War and the military life on at least the Veteran element probably accounts for a larger propor- tion of this increase in use of alcohol than the toils of sin involved in aban- doned college life. Moderation is the prevalent habit, with 762 taking less than live drinks p.er Week, and only 1091, more than ten. So far as tobacco is concerned, two out of three not only did not smoke a pack a day or its equivalent before coming to Yale, but nearly the same proportion still do not qualify as steady smokers. The exact figures are 3-iQ smokers before, and 3-I-.-PZ, after. Fwour out of five see less than five flicks a month . . . Most prefer musicals . . .