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

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Exglm' The year had passed by, and despite the furor and frenzy not too much had changed. Yale prepared to buff and polish a new generation. What lay ahead? More of the same? Perhaps, but this time it would be for keeps . . . Yale was a proving ground. Here was a chance to prove our worthg make the best of our opportunitiesg realize that in making mistakes, there was a second chance. Yale left us with a mosaic of memories and experienceg it bestowed a staunch staff. Whatever might lie ahead, you couldn't complain about the past. ig' east'

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The Banner Sur ey 1952-1953 In an attempt to determine with some degree of validity the salient factors in the makeup of the Yale man, the Yale Banner in 1952-1953 conducted an extensive survey. Its plan was simple: to investigate the nature of the Yale manis attitudes and activities in several phases of his life as an undergraduate. Chief among these phases were academic, social, athletic, and extra-curricular. An insight into his standards and ambitions was gained through the inclusion of several questions relating to his goals at Yale and in later life. The political poll aimed at ascertaining the character of, and the basis for, the Yale man's preferences and predictions in the recent presidential campaign. Incidental to the Survey, but perhaps most interesting of all, were correlations of the results from the point of view of the pollee's membership in any of several groups.,' The facts for this survey were collected from two polls of over seventy questions each. The first was taken in October, 1952, during the fervor and excitement of a great political campaign. The second poll was dis- tributed in January, 1953, containing questions of a personal nature relating primarily to Yale life. When the results were tabulated, considerable effort was taken to correlate the findings so as to gain an element of interdepend- ence between questions and discover factors contributing to various trends. Two groups of Yale undergraduates were selected at random for the poll. The results were tabulated and correlated by the use of IBM machines at the Department of Applied Physiology. Faculty experts examined the poll and judged it statistically sound. The results are within 3.7729 repre:enta- tive of the undergraduate student body. The Yale Banner staff is grateful to Mrs. P. B. Lettis and to Dr. Robert Strauss of the Department of Applied Physiology whose kind help facilitated tabulating the polls. Bradford P. Shaw, 1954, drew the cartoons in this sectiong the graphs were drawn by Philip P. Durand, 1955. 2' Q.-2 -axle . , -1f ' f 'fi .ag M ., -, Q .V-,saw 1 I,-45 , V- ai ,cy in fi' j 5 y. , .frtfxt , f ll