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A listing of the number of times freshmen had actually conferred with their advisers showed that the median Yardling between September and March had about four meetings. The median figure for an ideal number of meetings, however, showed a 50 percent increase to six.
The small staff has always been a major problem for the Yardling. The whimsical editorial of its first issue (February 21, 1940) concluded with a request to John Harvard to ask anyone else interested" to join the staff, and that theme has frequently recurred. For a paper whose aim has...
In a sense, this discontinuity is proper. As Adam Yarmolinsky '43, first chairman of the Yardling and now a Washington attorney, explained, "The Yardling was the kind of thing you could do in the relaxed atmosphere of the late thirties."
The problem of inconsistency is inherent in the Yardling, and the paper itself realized this in an editorial of October 11, 1954: "The Yardling rises and falls with each successive Freshman class; it has no standards to live up to and none to pass on." Without style books or tradition...
But seemingly more surprising than the headlines which may at times greet the Yardling reader is the fact that the Yardling resurrected itself on March 25, 1951, after lying dormant for almost eleven years to the day since the first Yardling silently bowed out on March 27, 1940. Actually the...