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College Spirit. In New Haven, Conn., the Homestead Motel proudly announced that it had "a limited supply of fine rooms available to Yalemen for their quests...
...found that half the student body had had sexual intercourse and generally more than "once or twice." Fraternity men (62%) were apt to be a bit more experienced than non-fraternity men (45%). One out of ten Yalemen was either married, engaged, or going steady. The rest liked to play the field, except for a lonely 8% who dated hardly...
...Yalemen were not insisting on the double standard for their women: only 8% said they would insist on virginity in their brides. They were apt to be self-critical: one out of three insisted that there was far too much drinking at Yale on weekends...
...Yalemen over the years he was known as "Bonnie Prince Charley"-a debonair and engaging scholar, with a flair for energetic lecturing (he virtually acted out the battle scenes). In his first years on the Yale faculty, his Diplomatic Background of the War (1916) did more than any other book to explain to literate Americans what the European war then raging was all about. It so impressed Woodrow Wilson that the President invited him to Paris in 1919 as a member of the U.S. peace delegation. After that, Seymour settled on the campus-first as professor, then as provost, finally...
Died. John Milton Berdan, 75, longtime Yale professor of English (1903-41); of cerebral thrombosis; in New Haven, Conn. Credited with influencing many well-known writers (Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benet, Thornton Wilder) through his popular "Daily Themes" course, Berdan was consulted by Yalemen Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden before they founded TIME...