Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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IUNIOR YEAR 41 Georgia, and the tickets for this game cost more than a dollar. Next year those Yale- in-Georgian Crackers have a chance at a record-beating Yale four straight. In Southern terminology they were traveling Hhigh, wide, and handsomef' Bad cess to you next year, 'ilojaf' The Cloister gave a fine dance that evening from which ema- nated erroneous reports that one of the in- mates showed uunusual self-control when his girl insisted upon opening ginger-ale Y i bottles with her teeth. He didn't. He ,4n,5ig!jmgx, shook his head sadly and retired to bed, leaving her to her own bottle-cap-ivorous whims. By this time accounting was strangling the A.E.S. students, ther- modynamics throttled the engineers, and the chemists were beset by a veritable octopus of cling- ing, tentacular subjects. We buried ourselves in our books until the world rolled around to the Harvard game, which it eventually did. Those whose pockets jingled entrained for the land of the Puritans, Cabot- steins, and Lodges, while a few of us penurious people re- Thy midnjghfpyrgwl, mained at home and blessed the radio. We blessed the radio, that is, until the Cantabs crossed the goal line for the third time to take the Yales over, I9-6. When the weary Yales trickled back to New Haven, we envied them not at all for their mid-season trip. And the newspaper hawks asserted that two Yale players had been seen ac- tually smiling while on the Held of action. One student felt so poorly after the game that he decided to have his tonsils removed immedi- atelyg but the ambulance driver whom he summoned could not see eye to gyg, No m:zn'.f land. iiili 1 - 1 ,:,i . ,? ,,as. l.... 5 J! xt: .sl ita 5 ,. , , .

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IUNIOR YEAR 43 The Berzelius and the Book and Snake societies announced their elections from the Sen- ior ranks of the University. Thanksgiving and the ensuing week-end brought Princeton and Fritz Crisler's newly pur- chased Tiger to New Haven to feed on Bulldog meat. Gun- delfinger had another attack. All the houses gave parties and the Dean's ollice had an attack. Colony jumbr, Princeton had an attack that was so good that Yale labored to a 27-2 defeat. The alumni had an attack concerning our coaching ethics. Then Rush Week loomed up and events took on the character of a .4 gg.,g Q Vtggt. second World War. iril L iiiil 'lri i Those fraternities who PlacidlY defied . the unuttered and too well denied com- g 5? V 1 mands of the University successfully 'Q -i T 'L elected members and quietly carried on. in Those of us for the first time on the in- i lf' f side of cigar week found it more sleep- less, more political, and more emotional than the outside. It was necessary at all Peek-a-boo. times to keep an ear to the ground and an eye on the dirt. Our Ac brothers departed for their two weeks' extra vacation which was playfully called a reading period, while we plodded to classes, did extra work in any Ac class in which we happened to be enmeshed, and genially cursed the whole inequality of af- fairs in general. Christmas vacation arrived on A ' schedule and scattered the inhabit- ants of Yale all over the United States and Hawaii. Florida and Bermuda, lands of sun-tanned ro- mance, claimed many of the stu- dents' attentions. The temperature on the Atlantic Seaboard went ab- solutely berserker and dropped flfhlvlff at fa-fc'-