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Yale. Bearish on futures in business and Wall Street, Yalemen don't expect to make much money any more. They foresee a vastly changed post-war world centered more & more in Washington. But they think there will still be a solid place for college men. Meanwhile, a "Yale Plan" has been worked out with Army & Navy whereby students may continue with their elected majors but add war-geared physics, math, electronics, etc. The entire student body is now obliged to take physical training three times a week under Yale Swimming and Olympic Coach Bob Kiphuth. In bull sessions...
...Have heard of your waterless plight. Crimson extends invitation to all Mount Holyoke girls to come to Cambridge and share our showers. Harvard men find best way to make friends is sharing common bath facilities. Now when you feel like girls in soap ads and when bathless Yalemen won't come within ten feet of you, Harvard wants to make friends. Our showers are big enough...
...open aid to the Allies, believing it would lead the U. S. into war. Furthermore, he thought Seymour's views were not those of the student body and got up a poll showing 3-to-1 on his side. General Robert E. Wood (Sears, Roebuck) heard of the Yalemen's activities, asked Stuart to visit him. Out of their conversation grew the America First Committee...
Among his customers the following day were a couple of Yale students. Amused, they copied Madden's scrawly rebuke, showed it to their friends. Madden became a "character." His joint was on the map for Yalemen, Park Avenue debs, Long Island's polo crowd. Encouraged by his customers, Joe began to write weekly essays-hard-earned wisdom couched in his own lingo. He had his pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those...
...Yale's students, 1,486 of whom had petitioned President Roosevelt to keep out of the war, these were alarming words. No less alarming were those of Henry L. Stimson (three days later nominated Secretary of War), who arrived in New Haven to urge fellow Yalemen to support compulsory military training, and of Yale's President Charles Seymour, who on the radio urged repeal of the Neutrality Act and all possible aid to Britain...