Word: elie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will not come until February 12, when the team travels to New Haven to engage with Yale. Besides the incentive of its being a league game, the Crimson will really be out to win, for it has been many a day since the club took a series from the Eli basketball five, and this is beginning to look like the year to do it. Yale has regularly been taking the rap in league contests, although their recent defeat of Army makes things look much more ominous...
None of this would be of interest at present were it not that Yale University, now plowing bravely into fields already braved by Harvard, is running into difficulties similar to those still plaguing University Hall. A reliable report from New Haven announces a proposal to group all Eli Freshmen on the Old Campus next year. This move would oust about 350 upperclassmen, chiefly Sophomores, from their mellow quarters and replace them with some 500 Yearlings. This is a natural step in the development of the Yale College plan, patterned after the Harvard Houses. And it raises the same question there...
...fallacy of this policy appears with the realization that even the tenth Harvard man finishing has a chance of contributing to his team's victory by beating the fifth Eli, boosting the opponents' total to a losing number of points. Thus cross country is a team sport in which every runner's performance may count although he may not have contributed in the point column...
Harvardmen were pretty shocked three years ago when they found that to get many of their classmates on the telephone they would have to dial "ELI", but it seems now that to get the Boston office of either the A.F. of L. or the C.I.O. you have to dial "CAPITOL...
Since Yale put their contests on the air, numerous letters of congratulation from Eli graduates all over the country have poured into New Haven, expressing appreciation of the opportunity thus offered them to keep in touch with their Alma Mater. To loyal alumni, who live too far away to witness any of Yale's football games, this innovation has been a great pleasure. Harvard, by stubbornly refusing to follow suit, is doing a great disservice to its own graduates...