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Besides helping to pay for Jubilee Weekend, proceeds from the ticket sale will be distributed among numerous Freshman organizations, with the Yardling alone receiving $125. Some of the money will finance budgets for upcoming Freshman activities, in particular the dance scheduled for the weekend of the Yale game.
Although slightly worried about the effect extra-curricular activities might have on studies, '66 takes a vastly different view from that of '65 at the same time last year. "Sure studies may suffer," said one Yardling, "but you have to do something more than grind." (He has joined three organizations...
The biggest immediate beneficiaries of Yardling interest were the political groups. Admittedly, this is an election year, but the Presidential race in 1960 failed to produce enthusiasm in, '64 that even mildly compares with that shown so far by '66.
While Greene could offer no definite reason for the Yardling patterns of behaviour, he did feel that "a lot of freshmen are for (H. Stuart) Hughes, and joined the Young Dems to work for him."
Although most freshmen immediately hit the books, some served on the Freshman Union Committee, which in October appointed eight subcommittees to investigate the possibility of presenting a Dartmouth Weekend Dance. On that weekend appeared the Yardling, a magazine issued less and less throughout the year.