Word: yalemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parliamentary debating society with members seated by parties, ruled by floor leaders. Predicted the Yale News: "Those hundreds of Yale men who revel in scheming, in 'packing,' in every crooked practice known to the county boss, will have a paradise especially made for them." Less cynical Yalemen, who know what a forcing ground for M. P.'s the Oxford Union has been, could find potential U. S. statesmen in the two young men with famed names who headed the Yale Political Union: president. Max Franklin Millikan, '35, son of Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan; vice president, August...
Last week crack athletes from Yale and Princeton went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. to play field hockey-not against each other but against a team of Vassar College girls. The games were played on successive days. Yalemen, surprised by the rough tactics of their opponents, replied in kind. Vassar's captain was hit in the eye so hard she could not play against Princeton. Score: Yale 4, Yassar 0. Next day in the Princeton game a Vassar player had the wind knocked out of her, gamely resumed play. Sticks were broken, roughness was about equal on both sides. Miss...
Warburg's Villain is a typical college "drunk" who wears a coonskin coat and tries to make love to the heroine. But she is infatuated with a footballer (Charles Laskey) who, badly banged up after a game, is carried in on the shoulders of adoring young Yalemen. Left alone with the heroine he tackles her at the knees, rolls her over, suddenly becomes exhausted and limp...
...Yalemen recall the 1921 Yale-Princeton football game in which Right End Justin Sturm stopped Princeton's Gilroy from getting away for a touchdown, helped his team win 13 to 7. Since then Justin Sturm has been a minor investigator for Montgomery Ward, a laborer in a glass factory, a gang foreman with a Chicago construction company. In 1926 Harper Bros, published his first novel (The Bad Samaritan). Last week Yalemen and others were able to see Justin Sturm's latest accomplishment-an exhibition of sculpture at Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries...
...have all his meals there. Fraternity treasuries felt the pinch as members dropped away from dining rooms, their chief sources of income. Mortgage payments came hard, and so did the fat sums which every local chapter pays into its national headquarters. Fraternity ties, never overly strong, grew weaker as Yalemen found friends among their college-mates...