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President Conant will join in the celebration of Yale's 250th anniversary by speaking at the Convocation exercises at 3 p.m. today in New Haven. Other speakers are A. Whitney Griswold, Yale President, and Lord Halifax, Chancellor of Oxford. The CRIMSON adds to the festivities with a feature on page...
...remarkable fact is not that Yale is 250 years old today, but how it managed to get that old. For Yale, which is now Gothically situated in New Haven, was spawned, nursed, and sent out into the Great World by Harvard men. In return for this loving care Yale, like Frankenstein's monster, has turned on its creator and done all sorts of outrageous things--such as beating the Crimson quite regularly in football. This type of thing is quite like Yale, which has capitalized on Harvard's temporary weaknesses all through its life...
Despite the administration's cordial attitude toward the rapidly-growing school in New Haven, individual Harvard graduates were apt to be a bit contemptuous of Yale. Peter Thatcher 1704 had a son twice refused for admittance by Harvard, and then wrote a friend that "I might send him to Yale, which takes many inferior scholars." Jacob Eliot 1720, lived near New Haven and once visited a Yale Commencement. It was, he bitterly wrote to a friend. "Dull, dull, dull...
...Yale was graduating the largest class of A.B.'s in the East. The Albany Journal reveals that during the spring the New Haven college granted 81 degrees; Union 71; Princeton 66; Dartmouth 44; and Harvard only...
...sharp eye and a lot of enthusiasm is the key to Yale's success. Sixty-seven-year-old Fred M. Walker, who has combined coaching with a Chicago brokerage business for the last 35 years has "sent" more than 40 varsity athletes from the Chicago area to New Haven since 1941. Walker, 1905 blocking back for the University of Chicago, told the CRIMSON yesterday, "I wouldn't recruit. The thing you have to do in the West is to persuade men that Yale is a man's school." He has been a singularly successful salesman, especially with his sons. Blake...