Yale Daily News for the week of
February 9, 1942

WAR:

Students, Faculty Register in University Next Monday. Registrants From 20 to 45 Must Sign Application Between 7 A.M. and 9 P.M. Undergraduates to sign up in common rooms of their colleges. "Each registration card will be filled out by a registrar, who will ask the registrant nine questions: 1) Name; 2) Residence; 3) Mailing Address; 4) Telephone; 5) Age; 6) Place of birth; 7) Name and address of person who will always know registrant's address; 8) Employer's name and address; 9) Place of business./ Each student should give his home address as his place of residence and his college address as his mailing address. After the registration card has been complete and signed by the registrant, he will be issued a registration certificate which must remain in his personal possession at all times. Upon request, he must exhibit it to any law enforcement officer or selective service official, and failure to do so renders the individual liable to immediate arrest." [Note: This was the second registration and was the one that applied to most of those in the Class of l942 - now past their 20th birthdays.]

[2/9] Mobile Unit Here Today to Receive Students' Blood. [2/10] Red Cross Fills Day's Quota as 98 Pints Are Bottled By Unit. President Seymour says, "Very pleasant, very easy, very delightful." [2/11] Blood Unit Gets 96 More Pints. Slug of Rye Lure Offered to Bolster Yale Donors. [2/12] Eli Blood Donors Yield 327 Pints For Army, Navy. Yesterday's 135 Paces Stay of Red Cross Unit; Free Hootch for Bleeders.

Communication. To the Chairman of the News: Dear Sir, In a Blue Vein
Blessings on me, I have bled / Plasma white and corpuscles red. / White cells for the wounded, / Red cells for the maimed, / Fluid for the ailing, / Serum for the lamed.
From this blood you'll be immune / To twenty ailments, noon to noon: / Typhoid and diphtheria, / Polio and the flu, / Measles, mumps, and chicken pox, / Chills and dread ague.
Personality's also yours / In these frozen, sterile gores. / Love of bats and rats and cats, / Six acute psychoses, / Virtue overdone by far, / And galloping neuroses. / This is the cloud with edge of lead-- / You'll feel much better . . . when you're dead.
I gave! Aardvark [Identity on request]

Marines to Recruit Officer Trainees. Undergraduates Enlisting May Finish College First.

Mansfield Accepts Price Control Post. Harvey Mansfield, Assistant Professor of Government, at Yale since 1929 except for short period in 1935 working for Franklin Roosevelt on a Committee for Administrative Management.

Rationing Ordered on Recapped Tires. And quantity of rubber in all new tires reduced.

Razor Blade Shortage Forewarns U S of Chin Fungus As Shavers Quake. Whiskery Americans May Have to Take Up Beards In Spite of Health Menace, Reverting to Antiquity.

Dean Bayne-Jones An editorial on the departure of Stanhope Bayne-Jones, dean of the Medical School, to serve in the office of the Surgeon General. "Since the emergency began, over one hundred faculty men have left Yale to serve the government."

Editorial: The Good soldier.
"The 'mental, physical, and spiritual ruggedness'[quoted from a Major Lincoln speaking at Pierson] required to make a good soldier has but one significance to the college community. The first and last characteristics, for which the Army is looking are semi-intangibles, but nothing could be more real than the physical fitness and endurance so necessary for the making of a good fighting man.... Of the three this is by far the easiest failing to remedy. Why, then, has Yale not yet embarked on a plan of compulsory athletics in order that none of her graduates may be found wanting in this most elementary requisite for war service?"

Harvard Begins Physical training 4 Hours Weekly. Covers all students except the Class of 1942.

Stimson [Henry L., Secretary of War] Cancels Summer Camps for ROTC. Army Will No Longer Require College Degree For Reserve Commission.

YCC Opens First Aid Classes in Gym; Elis Drilled For Yale Wartime Program.

ATHLETICS:
Natators Down West Pointers Saturday, 62-13.

Harvard Regatta Set For May 23. On the Housatonic at Derby rather than the Thames at New London.

Blue Sextet Primed to Reap [sic] Vengeance Against Williams. "With Bill Wood returning to action, the first forward line will again by the Junior unit of Wood, Johnny LeBoutillier, and Reg Roome. The intact second line will have Jock Thompson at center flanked by Ben Toland and Spink Davis, while Gig Carton will center the third trio with Collie Burgwin and Jim Wright on the wings. George Pillsbury will join Jack Chapin on the starting defense with Monk Meyer and either Bob Gill or Pete Brown in reserve. Both Bert Martin and Cord Meyer will probably see service in the nets."

Yale Birdmen to Meet Potent Westport Club After 3 Wins, 1 Loss. "[Badminton] Contestants for the blue will be Jack Caulfield, Jim McGowan, manager-player Ed Logue, Larry Barker, Charlie Ritchie, and Spotty Bowers."

ENTERTAINMENT:
Glee Club Gives Woolsey Concert.

Radio Drama Group to Present Comedy Over WOCD Tonight."WOCD's theater of the air, the Studio Players, will present their fourth radio play this evening at 8:30 when Surprise for the Boys, a prison comedy, goes on the airwaves. The cast will include Claude Douthit Jr., 1942, last year's president of the Dramat, C. Robert O'Connor, 1942, Louis Connick 1945, Richard F. Low, 1945, and William L. Bromberg, 1944. This group acts in the plays each week since, according to Ralph Levy Jr., 1942, director of the Studio Players, "we are trying to bring good drama, portrayed by an established group of performers, to Yale students."

Shubert Theater "Presents a Recital by the World's Foremost Musical Personality, Alec Templeton, February 18." Seats $2.20, $1.65, #1.10, 55c.

Glee Club to Give Town Hall Concert [February 15] With Jane Pickens as Soloist. Receipts to go to American Field Service..

HONORS:
Bonsal Awarded Cup "Richard I. Bonsal, 1942E, was presented the Master's Cup at the annual Senior Dinner in Davenport last night. The honor is awarded to "the senior in Davenport College who, in the opinion of the Masters and Fellows, is the most distinguished for his scholarly attainments."

Young First Winner of WOCD Contest."Frank B. Young, 1942, won the first edition of the WOCD Junior Prom Piano contest last night . . . playing 'Begin the Beguine.'" The winner of the playoff rounds will get a ticket to the prom and 5 dollars--and will be expected to perform at the Prom.

ADVERTISEMENTS:
So You're Going to Vassar. Advertisements from: Campus Cabs, Bock's Florist, The Swan Inn, Candlelight Studio, The Dell's Inn, Mrs. Frazier's Dutch Cabin, Covered Wagon, Hotel Arlington Inn, Talbot's, Gibson's Colonial Inn, College Drug, Central Taxi, Miller's Wines and Spirits, Juliet Theater (showing "Shadow of the Thin Man" with William Powell and Myrna Loy), College View Pressing (for your evening clothes).

[There will always be an England--and a J. Press]Evening Dress and Dinner Clothes
Clothes for formal occasions are tailored at J. PRESS with a degree of elegance seldom approached elsewhere. We are still supplying our standard midnite and black materials specially imported from Great Britain of the finest merino yarn and deep indigo dyes. Still included are our standard facings, braids, and linings of the heaviest pure silk. These clothes are turned out 'detail perfect' for the individual for whom they are made and will continue to look their best for years. Their economy is self-evident. With substitutions of standard materials a certainty in the near future the fulfillment of requirements of this kind is recommended while the best is still available.

AND THE REST:
Seniors Must Pay Dues, Says Treasurer Sprole.

Fraternities Begin Rushing Monday. 30-Minute Beer Parties Replace Usual Dinner.

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Yale Daily News for the week of
February 16, 1942

WAR

Required Athletics Will Start March 30; Present Sports Program to Continue. "The new athletic program entails three hours of work for all students not engaged in seasonal sports."

Yale Registration Finishes Smoothly. Estimated 1500 Sign Up At University Centers.

Elis Huddle in Passageways of College Basements As University Undergoes First 20-Minute Blackout.

1200 Pledge Time To Defense Work. Donors, Blackout Crews Respond to YCC's Call.

Army Will Exempt Medical Students. New Ruling Will Defer First, Second Year Men.

Poll Shows Nation Ignoring Colleges as Places For Training Needed Men. "Maroon" Survey Finds Student Body Prepared With Little Prospect Of More Intelligent Policy. [Quotes The Daily Maroon of the University of Chicago]

Courses in German Remain Unaltered. Department Head Holds Language Valuable Now.

SPORTS

Undergraduates To Register For Sports Program Today [2/19]

Competition For New Cheers Begun As Day Sees Need For Originality. Head cheerleader Osborne Day remarked, "The only one of the present cheers that really 'clicks' is the long cheer, and that most of the others are merely adaptations from it. The long cheer has been in existence for a long time, being one of the oldest college cheers."

Dan Dugan Takes State Squash title.

THE ARTS

Heifetz Concert Moved to Tonight [2/16] Because of Trial Blackout Tuesday.

Review of Woman of the Year with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. "Katie and Spence sure do it up."

Dramat Reverts To Gay Nineties For Prom Show. 'Escape' Will Be Keynote of 'Too Much Johnson,' William Gillette Farce. "Principals with cast are John W. Leggett, Jr., 1942, and Spencer D. Moseley, 1943. Leggett will appear in the part of Augustus Billings." They will be supported by "Stage-worn Dramat comedians Jack Fletcher, Walter Goodman, Jack Britain...."

Show To Feature Songs By Whiffs, Dramat Reveals. Referring to Too Much Johnson. "The Whiffenpoofs will sing at the opening of each act and will appear as a blackface chorus in the gay nineties farce. [They] are cast as sailors on a Havana-bound ship and as field workers on a Cuban plantation."

Feature-Studded Aquatic Carnival Set For Feb. 28. Eli Divers, Famed Stars, 'Frog' Chorus Combine in Annual Performance. "Repeating the role for which they gained renown in the Dramat's production of Aristophanes' The Frogs, the Yale swimmers will again do the choral scenes from that production."

AND SO INTO THE WORLD WE COME (some of us)

Mid-Year Degrees Conferred on 77 Under War Plan. Law School Awards 53; 20 Seniors Earn BA, Sheff Gives BS to Four. "Yale College and Sheffield Scientific School graduates ... have received certificates of completion of requirements entitling them to degrees at Commencement in June." BA: Page M. Anderson, Beckwith R. Bronson, Justus Chancellor, Paul D. Cooke, Claude Douthit Jr., Norman C. Eddy, Roger W. Eddy, Harry T. Greene, David F. Harris, Bradley N. Hunt, Henry K. Jeck, Pierpont A. Judd, Richard S. Kaynor, Donald A. Kubie, Leon T. Kulikowski, William H. Lightner II, William D. Lynch, George Oleair, John C. Ripley, Vaughan C. Spalding Jr. B.S.: Eric T. Franzen, John T. Morris, William M. Pike, Robert Wallace.

Sigma Xi Society Selects 97 Men in Annual Election. 12 faculty, 4 graduate students, 31 undergraduates. From the class of 1942: Marshall B. Alpert, William F. Arnoldy, Marvin C. Brooks, Richard H. Carter, David H. Gould, Charles W. Hendel III, Albert J. Ingley, William K. McOwen, Lyman C. Peck, Henry M. Stommel. Lawrence Barker, Harry J. Bekish, Carl A. Gagliardi, John J. Mendillo, Robert A. Miller, Sherwood H. Reisner, Richard I. Bonsal, Robert J. Boyle, Daniel I Gordon, Geoffrey E. Goring, Herbert L. Greaves, John P. Josephs, Frederick W. Keith, Joseph M. Kelly, Conway H. Melcher, Thomas L. Weirick.

29th Alumni Day Will See Return of 1500 to Yale

GLOOM

Luce Calls Reliance on Faith, Not Reason, Basis For Coming 'American Golden Age' [At the annual News banquet]

The Devil's Due, Column By Elias Clark

After a Week of Defeats

Last week the democracies suffered a series of defeats comparable in gravity to the tragedies of Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor. The fall of Singapore became fact rather than a long-expected inevitability; the position of Rangoon, the last accessible outpost to China, was admittedly precarious; the Japanese were successfully conquering the Dutch East Indies, as Australia steeled herself for an invasion once more real; with but one more month of winter the gallant Russian offensive seemed to be slowing down; and the proud Normandie, with all its luxurious majesty, was gutted and half-buried in the mud of th East [sic] River. Finally came the dramatic escape of the German war vessels. Even though it may be, as Mr. Churchill explained, a blessing in disguise, the manner of its happening added to the general depression of the tragic week

These military setbacks have led the American people to look upon complete defeat no longer as an unlikely possibility but as a very present danger. Out of this realization has been born new determination--a new spirit which has even invaded "war-unconscious" Yale. Even Mr. Luce's rhetorical plea for faith to the exclusion of reason in this time of crisis brought an emotional response.

HIGH LIFE

Yale Law Journal Fetes Judge Hand. "Judge Leaned Hand was the guest of honor at the fifty-first annual banquet of theYale Law Journal. The occasion was the seventieth birthday of the magistrate, who is Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the second District."

Fraternity Beer Parties To Continue in Blackout. "Time will be called only when the lights are out and will be counted only when the lights are on."

James T. Wyman Elected Chairman For Senior Prom. Frank A. Kemp named Treasurer; [George] McCleland To Be Floor Manager.

Junior Prom Chairman Hayes Disagrees With Experts; Cantabs Fear Change Will Impair Committees' Dignity."Mrs. Post in an exclusive statement to the News said: 'It will, I think, be in best taste to announce that owing to the war the arrangements for the Prom will be simplified as much as possible, and that tails will be out of order.'" In the same issue of the News appeared an, 70 Center Street: "WALDORF FOR YOUR PROM TO-HIRE. / New FULL DRESS Suits / 'TAILS' / Opera Hats - Accessories / Largest and Most Complete Stock in Town / All Garments Fitted to Your Individual Measurements. / NEW ACCESSORIES FOR SALE / White P. K. Dress Vest $5.00 / Arrow Dress Shirts - $3.00 / Arrow Collars - 25-35c / White P. K. Dress Ties 75-95c / Studs and Link Sets $2.50 up / Dress Braces - 50c-$1.00 / Dress Hose (Black) - 50c / RESERVE YOUR 'TAILS' NOW!"

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Yale Daily News for the week of
February 23, 1942

Seymour Stresses Complete Subordination Of University Existence To Government. 'The University Must Sacrifice' is President's Keynote in Address to Alumni. The University stands ready "to make curricular changes under government guidance whenever the national emergency requires it."

Editorial: Not "ours"but "Ours". "Yale--the name, the symbol, the fact--is a perfect example of imperfect humanity. ... But are we no more than typical Americans under the common bond of college and friends? Have we no function as a partial entity within the greater whole of American democracy? Most certainly we do.
"In 'dedicating ourselves--all that we are, all that we have--to the service, security, and welfare of our country' we have, through President Seymour, accepted a challenge. Undergraduates, graduates of fighting age, and older sons of Eli too, all now stand responsible for the success or failure of Yale's war effort. Each in his own small measure must be more than a patriotic citizen rising to the national crisis. For we are members now and forever of a privately endowed community which faces extinction unless we can justify its existence in education and leadership towards ultimate victory for the democracies."

Alumni Hear Pigott Boost Civil Training. "John T. Pigott, 1942, student commander of the Yale NROTC Unit, emphasized the need for Yale men to realize that they must train for government positions in peace as well as in war in his address to the Alumni Luncheon in Freshman Commons yesterday. He pointed out that 'the student will abandon his education unless he is convinced that what he is doing is essential to his country, and,' he continued, 'few students are convinced of this today.' Pigott suggested that it should be made clear to future classes that the reason they are placed in college is to prepare themselves for positions in government rather than for the Stock Exchange. 'Then and not until then will they find an answer to their problem and be content to continue their work as long as possible.'"

Yale Announces War Educational Program, Devoting Full Effort to Training Men. "Yale Plan" Designed to Create liaison Between Army, Navy, Industry Needs And Preparation Facilities of College.

DeVane Stresses Teaching Career As Vital to War. "'Good teaching is vital more than ever in wartime in preventing the degeneration of a country's standards of intelligence,' said Dean William C. DeVane, 1920, in the first meeting of the Yale Career Conference in Dwight Hall last night. The meeting was the first of a series sponsored by the Bureau of Personnel Study and Dwight Hall. Stressing the disastrous effects of a war on the quality of teaching throughout the nation, Dean DeVane urged all prospective teachers not to lose sight of their goal in spite of the immediate demands for individual self-sacrifice. After the war, continued Dean DeVane, the need for able men in the field of education will be even greater than that of the last post-war educational degeneracy."

Physics-Philosophy Clubs To Commemorate Galileo. "Science will be combined with the liberal arts tonight when the Physics and Philosophy Clubs hold a joint meeting in the Sloane Physics Laboratory at 8.15. The meeting will be held to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo, inventor of the telescope, and propounder of the theory of equal speed of falling bodies. ... the public is invited to attend."

Football Coach Question is Still Big Issue on Campus As University Established Required Athletics Program.

Blue Swimmers Down Michigan by 59-16 Score. "Bob Kiphuth's swimming sensations handed an all-powerful Wolverine team their first loss in four years Saturday night at Ann Arbor." Winning Yale swimmers included Ed Pope, Rene Chouteau, Howie Johnson, Twigg Twigg-Smith, Dick Kelly, Jim Cook, Sandy Thompson, Bob White, Johnny Meyer, and Dick Peters. Three pool and three Yale records were set.

Elis May Hiss Nazis In Propaganda Film At PU House Tonight. "Professor Mamlock," an anti-Nazi film of the pre-Pearl Harbor era.

Hindemith Presents "Bible Sonatas" of Biber. " Mr. [Paul] Hindemith brought this year's Chamber Music Series to a brilliant lose last night with a performance and a program which one would have thought beforehand would have been scholarly rather than musical. That it was predominantly the latter is an achievement which in our opinion could come from few people in the world besides Mr. Hindemith. It was his evening, and he made the most of it. He began by addressing the audience as informally as he did in the Jonathan Edwards Common Room ten days ago in a lecture-recital on the same composer, Heinrich Biber. On that occasion he had stressed his belief in the high quality of the music of this seventeenth century genius, and last night he stated flatly that this was no ordinary recital but one in which the only thing of importance was the music and its authentic performance...." Review by Howland Auchincloss, Jr.

Euridice in Strapless Will Warn Yale, "Don't Look Back!" As Prom Theme. "'Don't look back!' is the message the 1942 Junior Promenade will bring to Yale, Richard W. Van Middlesworth, 1943, in charge of decorations, said yesterday. To illustrate this theme, the Greek myth of Orpheus and Euridice will strike the keynote in the decorations. An up-to-date Euridice, in a strapless evening gown, and modern Orpheus in top hat and tails will be drawn in sequins on a wall of gauze separating the double bandstand. Behind the modern couple will stand a bronze statue of the ancient version of Orpheus, borrowed from the Yale Museum, that will fade in and out by means of special lighting effects."

Advt. Mrs. Root, Inc. / Connecticut's Foremost Caterers / Root's Will Supply the Best / In Food and Drinks / For Weekend Prom Parties / 158 Orange Street / New Haven.

[William B.] Shirer Discusses Economic Problems In Germany and Occupied Territories. Hillhouse Audience Hears Journalist Describe War As Struggle For Survival. Speaking on the subject Inside Germany, "The present struggle will be no easy one and one which we can very possibly lose."

Berkeley Players Perform Tonight. "As their fourth annual production the Berkeley Players will present Robert Greene's Elizabethan Comedy Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, in the Berkeley College Dining Hall tonight at 8.30. Albert W. Barney Jr., 1942, as Friar Bacon, Joseph F. Tilghman, 1944, as the heroine, and John F. Clark, 1942, in the male lead, will head a large cast. The play was written by Greene in the tradition of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and has many scenes of witchcraft and sorcery. All Yale Students, faculty members, and the general public are invited."

[Bruce] Simonds Excels in Piano Concert. Shows Delicacy, Control With Debussy Offerings.

Foundation Garments And Beer Cans Are Threatened Shortages. "Beer in cans will become a luxury of the past after canners stop making metal containers for this beverage on May 31, the War Production Board stated recently. Sharing the effects of the ruling are coffee and ham, which must be restricted to glass bottles and paper wrappers only. Further bans were placed on rubber, abolishing the production of thread for garters, corsets, brassieres, and other foundation garments. Eli garters and suspenders will soon become extinct, thereby bringing belts back in to service and letting socks droop, since there is no substitute for a garter."

Promising Hillhouse Boys Tutored By Yale Undergraduate Committee. YCC Plan Introduces Students to University Life. "The plan was worked out for the Committee by Kent Chandler, 1942, who studied a similar system used by Phillips Brooks House in Harvard. Its purpose is not so much to help boys who are having trouble with their work, as it is to encourage the boy that wants to do further work under individual supervision in a field which interests him."

"Ugly Duckling" Act to Head Carnival; Pope, Laun Conceive Newest Feature. [with picture]

"Not 'Frogs' but 'Ugly Ducklings'--Sandy Thompson, Ed Pope, Bob White, and Tom Jackson-- shown above in the midst of rehearsals for the newest feature of the Swimming Carnival tomorrow night, make up the majority of the Mother Goose pantomime to be acted out as a main attraction of the aquatic extravaganza. The first time such an attempt has ever been made in the water, the 'Ugly Duckling' act was conceived and directed by varsity swimmer, Ed Pope, who will act in the role of the Duckling himself. Record Chairman Louis Laun will act as narrator of Pope's performance, and, according to advance propaganda from Carnival headquarters, it is bound to bring down the house. Pope will be assisted by a chorus of five swimmers."

Ski Bulletin: Skiing good at 13 sites, fair at 5.

"The News That Fits": 'Times' Gives Rebuke to Irate Cub Group. "The staid New York Times moved from its usual conservative base last week and administered a group of irked Yale freshmen a sharp rap on the knuckles. Shaking the dust of centuries from his editorial pen, the Times-man, in reply to a letter to the sports editor, rebuked the cub group who were slightly pussy over the fact that the Times omitted mention of the Yale-Michigan swimming meet a week ago. Said theTimes, explaining that the meet was too late in the evening to make out-of-town editions, 'Colleges operate on the principle that freshmen have a lot to learn.' There was no confirmation last night to the rumor that the Times was changing is motto to 'ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS WE PRINT.'"

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Yale Daily News for the week of
March 2, 1942

USN Establishes V-1 Program to Enroll 80,000 University Freshmen, Sophomores. Educational Deferment To Be Given Enrollees; Requirements Listed. Age: 17-20, eyes 15/20, height 62-76 inches, weight in proportion. "...it is expected that all who pass the physical examinations will be accepted."

New Draft Rules Speed Induction. Registrants to Report To Army Immediately. "In the past registrants who passed local board medical examinations received a notice to report to the Army for physical examinations. Passing the Army examination they returned to their homes to await induction. Now registrants will receive notice to report for induction and will then undergo the Army physicals. If they pass they immediately become subject to Army regulations. . . . furloughs will be granted in cases where the registrant, after induction, needs time to adjust his civilian affairs. . . . student registrants should communicate with their deans or with the Bureau [of Military Training Information] if they desire aid in their 'educational affairs.'"

College Athletics Oversubscribed. Men Failing to Make Team of First Choice Will Take Gym Class.

Freshmen Will Join English Allies In Rationed Wartime Diet Today. Daily Menu From Oxford's Exeter College Commons Is Offered As Example of Possible Food Restrictions. "For breakfast, the British undergraduate has hot oatmeal (porridge) with milk, sausages, rolls and bread, and coffee or tea. Lunch is the day's most meager meal, and is comprised of steamed codfish and potatoes, with tapioca pudding for dessert. Dinner is pretty heavy, with soup, 'Hot Pot,' a sort of super stew, and a combination dessert of custard and 'apple shape.' Britons are fond of heavy desserts and are still able to have them to a certain extent: no eggs are used, but the sugar ration of eight ounces per week is only four ounces less than our own."

Surprise Total Blackout Planned for Connecticut. "All Connecticut will be blacked out at a date known in advance only by the Army and a few defense officials. . . All street lights, homes, stores, and possibly even defense factories will be affected. A statewide ban on smoking and lighting matches during the blackout will be enforced by defense officials."

[Editorial] A Yale Failure. "When Yale is about to indulge in welcome relaxation it is hard to speak of shortcomings or failures. There has been such a failure recently, however, and one that is so glaring against a Prom background that we cannot hesitate to mention it. The sale of Defense stamps for the month of February has been made known, and the record of Yale Station compared with the other branch post offices has not been just poor: it has been unbelievably wretched. . . . In Yale station, $365 were sold, compared with Westville's $2770. Westville has less than one-third the regular annual business that Yale supplies."

US May Retain 3-Year Degrees. Carnegie Foundation Says War Change Permanent.

Lecture Series By [Ralph Henry] Gabriel, [William G.] Fletcher Provides Unique Education for Army. Soldiers Turn Students of Tactics, History, Geography For Background Clarifying Issues at Studies in Conflict. Lectures are being published in book form.

Army, Navy Units March in Review Before Seymour. "Two sabers were awarded to cadet officers: the first to Walter P. Githens, 1942S, as the "outstanding battery commander," by the Department of Military Science and Tactics; the second to Fred H. Harrison, 1942, as an "outstanding ROTC senior." John T. Pigott Jr., 1942, cadet lieutenant commander of the NROTC, was awarded the Unit Cup and the Raynham Townshend Sword. Other awards presented in the military unit were as follows: Lampkin H. Butts, 1942, received a gold pencil as the commander of the best-drilled platoon; John G. Keller, 1942, received a similar award for leading the second best-drilled platoon; ...and Elmore A. Willets, Jr., 1942S, was given the medal awarded by the Sons of the American Revolution to a "conspicuously outstanding ROTC senior." Navy awards included the Admiral Berrien Cup, which was awarded to the First Company Second Platoon, through its commander, Richard W. Meyer, 1942, as "outstanding military unit of the battalion; the captain T. F. Caldwell Cup, awarded to the Third Company First Platoon, through its commander, Frederick A. Godley Jr., 1942, for having shown improvement of military drill; Sons of the American Revolution Medal, awarded to William D. Campbell, 1942; and the American Legion Medal which was awarded to Eric C. Goodwin, 1942.

Late Rally Gives Icemen 4-2 Win Over Cantabs.

Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian Pianist, Will Play Tonight. With New Haven Symphony in Woolsey Hall.

Presentation of Cup Featured Saturday. "A feature event in Saturday's aquatic festival was the presentation [shown in a picture] above--Jack Leggett giving Howie Johnson the Dramatic Association Cup. The cup was awarded by the Dramat to the Swimming Association for the participation of members of the Yale swimming team in the Dramat production of 'The Frogs.' The handsome trophy was selected by John Phillips, head of the Garvan Collection of silver in Yale, and bears the inscription: 'From the Yale Dramatic Association / to the Yale Swimming Association / in Appreciation / "The Frogs" / November, 1941.' Around the top the 'Frog' slogan, 'Brek-ek-ek-ex coax coax,' is inscribed. The cup is to be placed in the gymnasium trophy room."

Jacob Discusses Future Airways. "Speaking at the second meeting of the annual Career Conference at Yale, Mr. C. W. Jacob, assistant to the president of American Airlines, lectured on 'a Career in Transportation.' in Dwight Hall last night. . . . 'Air transportation has grown but it hasn't ceased to grow.' Introducing facts to prove his point, Mr. Jacob stated that at the present rate of growth of American Airlines, 1946 will see 10,000 passengers leave New York City every day. He predicted that a trip to Moscow will be as common as a trip to Chicago today. 'Cargo will also greatly increase the industry. This market has not, as yet, been touched . . . and it is a tremendous field that may surpass passenger trade. There are no barriers of fear to be overcome. . . . There is more than a possibility of airplanes becoming as common as automobiles. After the war, industry will be geared toward far greater production than we have today.'"

Gives Sermon tomorrow AM. "Norman Thomas, Litt.D. of New York City, will deliver the sermon at the regular Sunday morning service in Battell chapel at 11 tomorrow morning. . . Mr. Thomas is of course best known for his losing political campaigns as presidential candidate for the Socialist ticket."

Eli Squash Team Ready For Jeffs. Coach Sees Tough Bout, Says Yale Should Win. Playing against Amherst: Captain Dan Dugan, Jack Holt, Dick Dugan, Dick Cooley, Worthy Adams, Hal Williamson, Jim Ethridge, Hunt Welch, and Ned Lockwood.

[The Devil's Due: column by Elias Clark.] The Dies Committee. "In time of great crisis weak links are quick to manifest themselves. During the days before December 7 Congress managed to blunder through, kicking up little dust by its actions; but with the stress of war all its incompetence, slowness, and petty partisanship is clearly delineated. No better illustration of these unfortunate characteristics can be found than the Congressional Committee under Representative Martin Dies to investigate subversive activities. On February 18, Mr. Thomas Eliot, Representative from Massachusetts, effectively attacked the proposal of an appropriation for $100,000 to enable the Dies Committee to continue its snooping for another year. By a specific list of incidents he proved the tragic incompetence of the Committee. Innocent people in all professions have been arbitrarily accused of Communistic affiliations. ... A number of people were condemned for belonging to organizations headed by former Chief Justice Hughes and Wendell Willkie."

Art Gallery To Present Australian War Films.

Glee Club Concert To Begin Prom Weekend Gaiety. Junior Prom Highlight to Feature Whiffenpoofs, Student Songs, Ballads

Whiffenpoof Ballads Available to Yalemen in Recording Album. "For the first time in the 33 years of Whiffenpoof history, and album of its recordings has been published by the David Dean Smith Music Store. The album includesWhiffenpoof Song, Lucka Lucka Siroke, Shall I Wasting in Despair?, Mavourneen, And When the Leaves, We Were Gathering Up The Roses, Old gray Bonnet, Bandolero, The Moaning Lady, Way Down in My Heart, Down Over the Hill,and George Jones. The number of volumes has been limited to 500."

Cuts Forbidden Before Easter Vacation.

WOCD Will Interview Mitzi Green at 5:30. Opening in My Dear Public at the Schubert.

Phi Beta Kappa Banquet Tonight At Lawn Club. Speakers: Marjorie Hope Nicolson, president of PBK; Clarence Mendell, Master of Branford; Professor George Hendrickson, and L. Philip Ewald, Jr., 1942. This paragraph appeared next day: "Ewald, in the undergraduate address, called for the 'razing of the walls' that separate Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School. 'The well-equipped man . . . must be both "academic" and "scientific",' he said, declaring that 'America needs well-equipped men with both "emotional balance" and technical minds.'"

288 Yale College Students Attain 'B' Average Needed For Dean's List. "Covering for the most part the period immediately preceding and following the attack on Pearl Harbor and compiled on new and higher Yale College standards which require a straight B average for a Dean's Scholar ranking, the grades show 288 students on the Yale College Dean's List. Significantly, fewer students had extremely poor records than in several years." [The list of Class of 1942 Dean's Scholars will be published here shortly. TF]

[Charlie] Spivak and [Newt] Perry Furnish Music at 91^st Yale [Junior] Prom Tonight. Grand March at 10.15. Grand March at 10.25. 90^th Prom Chairman George Kirchwey Hands over wooden spoon.10 card dances. "Promgoers are reminded of the method to be used in changing partners between card dances tonight. (1) The gentleman must meet his partner at the end of each card dance, which will usually consist of three musical selections. (2) The college boxes will be lettered, and the meetings will always take place at that gentleman's box which is alphabetically the lower of the two, A being lower than Z. (3) After meeting his partner, the gentleman will escort her to her partner for the next dance. This meeting will take place in the same manner as above."

Girls Requested to Check Own Coats in Gym Tonight; No Smoking on Floor. [With map of gym and coatrooms]

Dramat Offers Tickets Gratis to Service Men. 50 tickets to Too Much Johnson

History Majors' Essays Due By This Saturday. "History majors must turn in their departmental essays to the secretary of the department at 648 Berkeley College on or before this Saturday, March 7. The secretary's office is open till noon daily. Authors are reminded that their names and addresses must be printed plainly on the outside cover."

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Yale Daily News for the week of
March 9, 1942

Knollenberg Talks On WTIC Program. Yale Librarian Analyzes Proposed Tax Increases. "Bernhard Knollenberg, librarian of Yale University and ex-lawyer, analyzed the direct effects of the proposed twenty-seven billion dollar tax program on the weekly WTIC broadcast, 'Yale Interprets the News.' Discussing the pros and cons of taxing the interest on state and municipal bonds in order to help raise the 1943 nine billion dollar increase over 1942's eighteen billion dollar schedule, Mr. Knollenberg concluded that such taxation would be completely legitimate and plausible. . . . Income tax increases will involve only the surtaxes on incomes over $2000 and are still far less than the British income taxes. . . which are a flat 50 percent on all incomes over $660, with a surtax after $8000 of 10 percent, rising to a 47½ percent maximum."

75% of Princeton, 60% of Harvard Plan To Report For College During summer; 93% of Yale Returning.

Tomkins States Many Selectees May Be Officers . . . Head of Military Bureau Cites Openings in Draft. "The many thousands of officers needed for the Army, said Mr. Tomkins, must be obtained through the draft. After the three months of preliminary training required for all Army men, everyone with officer ability has an equal opportunity to enter an officer's training school since there is no quota and the demand is great. Selection for these schools is based on pre-army training, induction training and the opinion of senior officers. Mr. Tomkins stressed the foolishness of a student's majoring in a subject for which he is not best suited with the aim of getting some special job in the Army. The Army wants to use every man to the best advantage but cannot use any second-raters. Moreover the most crying need is for intelligent combat officers, both non-commissioned and commissioned. Most important of all, continued Mr. Tomkins, is 'mental conditioning.' Scholastic background does not assure an officer's berth but special courses in addition to a student's major will prove valuable."

Six Elis To Enter Speech Clashes. Inter-American Contest To Hold District Finals. The Class of 1942 entrants were Joe R. Seacrest, C. Robert O'Connor, and John C. Vorrath.

Boston Symphony Will Play Tonight. Serge Koussevitsky conducting program of Britten, Prokofieff and Beethoven.

Yale Hospital Unit Spreads System of Student Aides to US Colleges. Officials Approve Plan For Relieving Shortage Of Medical Personnel. "With the United States Government planning to induct 50,000 nurses and at least 10,000 doctors into the armed forces, the Yale Hospital Unit is undertaking to spread to all American colleges a system of student medical aide groups such as those in service at Yale. , , , John H. Heller, 1942, Chairman of the Yale Hospital Unit, cites the proposal of nation-wide student aide systems as a reasonable solution to some of the problems United States hospitals face in the immediate future. . . . Among those endorsing the Yale proposal are the Surgeon General, the Office of Emergency Management, the Office of Defense Health, the National Committee on Medical Education, and the National Red Cross, all of whom feel it will almost completely alleviate the shortage."

Yale Adds Courses To Train Civilians. New Subjects Designed For Industrial Workers. "In cooperation with the Yale faculty, the Office of the Engineering Science and Management Defense Training Program has instituted new courses is Rubber Technology and Radio Communications for industrialists and civilians desirous of position is factories. . . .Over 400 civilians have applied [for the course in Radio Communications], the purpose of which is to train men to replace drafted radio technicians, but only 70 can be accepted."

Statement From Undergraduate Deans Says Meter Breaking Means Dismissal. "Destruction of municipal property, especially parking-meters on Wall Street and York Street, has been brought to the attention of the University Authorities. In this war emergency Yale is pledged to assist the government, federal, state, and municipal, in every possible way. It is unthinkable, with this pledge in mind, that any student in the University should participate in the destruction of public property. The University officers have promised full cooperation with the city officers in preventing such acts of destruction. They ask the support of undergraduate opinion. Four undergraduates convicted of acts of destruction have been suspended. If further destruction of public property should continue, the offenders will be dismissed from the University and recommendations to any war authority will be withheld."

Saturday Dinner Available to Elis. Silliman and Trumbull Will Open Dining Halls. "...for dinner on Saturday, March 14, to accommodate the college members still remaining. All other College Dining Halls will close after luncheon on Saturday, but their members will be privileged to take their regular dinner, which will not be considered as a transfer, at Silliman and Trumbull Dining Halls."

Advertisement from J. Press:
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Princeton Will Abolish All Freshman Sports. "... not only as an economic measure but also because the new Big Three ruling permits freshman participation in varsity sports."

Advertisement for Greyhound Bus Lines
Spring vacation this year is BE - KIND - TO - YOUR - CAR - AND - TIRES - WEEK--in other words, go home by Greyhound. It's your chance to be kind to your pocket-book, too -- you don't need a course in higher mathematics to figure out you're way ahead at Greyhound's low fares. The schedules are convenient -- the deep-cushioned seats are as rest-provoking as a dull lecture --and the crowd's sure to be a lot of fun. Yes, sir, the right start for this vacation is by Greyhound. Round Trip Fares: Philadelphia, $5.04; New York City, $2.21; Boston,$4.47; Chicago, $23.04; Washington, D.C. $8.66.; St. Louis, Mo. $25.04; Norfolk, $13.49; Minneapolis, Minn. $36.38; Detroit, Mich. $22.16; Cleveland, Ohio, $17.48; Pittsburgh, Pa., $14.91; Cincinnati, Ohio, $24.26; Indianapolis, Ind., $25.04; Buffalo, N.Y. $12.92; San Francisco, $80.80; Portland, Me. $8.56.

Advertisement for Hollywood Beach Hotel, "Greater Miami's Greatest Showplace."
Make this Vacation "One For The Book" / Today's speed-up at school and tomorrow's great pervading question-mark entitle you to an "all-out", completely relaxing, unforgettable spring vacation this year. And that is the kind we have in store for you at the South's largest oceanfront resort-estate. It is a grand "houseparty" in Florida's golden sunshine, planned by college people for college students--the INTER-COLLEGE SPRING PARTY. WHENEVER YOU CAN COME FROM MARCH 16 TO MAY 1. -- There'll be swimming, golf (no green fees), tennis, surf fishing, other sports . . . dancing, parties, floor shows, moonlight boat rides, beach dinners and "side trips". Your own sort of crowd will be there helping things along. The special rate of $10 per day per person includes everything -- room, meals, and all the romance and fun you can pack into a few long-to-be-remembered days in a sun-blessed tropic paradise beside the Gulf Stream / Talk it over with Dad and Mother, and your friends. See your travel agent -- or write today for details.

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Yale Daily News - Spring Vacation 1942 (1)

Deans' Honor Lists of Class of 1942 For Half Year

Yale Daily News, February 18 and March 30, 1942

Yale College: Ainsworth, T. W.; Alexander, D. C.; Allen, G. H.; Alpert, I. M.; Anderson, P.M.; Appleton, R. F.; Backus, O. P.; Bain, R. C.; Bancker, J. W.; Barker, L.; Barney, A. W. ; Bartlett, H. H.; Beers, D.; Bekish, H.; Bell, W. T. ; Bennitt, P.; Bridgman, D. G. C.; Britton, T. C. ; Brush, H. M.; Burchard, D. W. ; Burman, R. A. ; Butts, L. H.;

Carragan, C. S. ; Chandler, J.; Chandler, K.; Chapin, J. C.; Chouteau, R. A.; Comstock, G. M. ; Conway, R. L.; Cooke, P. D.; Copp, B. A.; Corse, C. T.; Crum, C. N.; Curtis, M. H.; Daley, R. H.; Davis, R. S.; DeKorn,R.; Desjardins, P. J. R.; de Zaldo, E.; Dun, A. A.; Du Vivier, E. K.; Dyer, R. N.;

Eddy, R. W.; Emery, C. F.; Ewald, L. P.; ; Filley, W. O.; Fowler, E. C. ; Furniss, W. T.; Gagliardi, C. A.; Gessell, J. M.; Given, D.; Goodman, J. K.; Goodrich, C. S.; Goodwin, E. C.; Goslin, T. S.; Goss, G. A.; Hansen, E. A.; Harrison, F. H.; Harvey, W.; Harwood, G.; Hemingway, L. L.; Hess, T. B.; Hooper, P. ; Hull, T. C.; Hunt, A. M.;

Kane, T. P.; Kemp, F. A.; Kennedy, S. C.; Kirkpatrick, J. B.; Knight, D. M.; Lamont, D. B.; Latorre, V. T.; Laun, L. F.; Lewis, R. S.; Lipphard, D.; Logue, E. J.; Lord, G. D.; Lucey, R. W.; Lynch, W. D.; McCorkle, G. M.; McDermott, J. S.; Masland, R. P.; Mendillo, J. J.; Midkiff, R. R.; Miller, R. A.; Neuhaus, P. R.; O'Connor, C. R.; Ohler, W. R.;

Packard, J. M.; Palitz, S. F.; Palmer, D. S.; Partridge, E. L.; Paul, J. W.; Peters, R. H.; Pfeiffer, G. R.; Pigott, J. T.; Pisani, L. F.; Plotkin, P. A.; Porter, J.; Reisner, S. H.; Rhett, R. G.; Richardson, L.; Rosenthal, C. L.; Royal, H. F.;

Saltzstein, A.; Samford, F. P.; Seidler, W. D.; Shachnow, N. K.; Shea, J. T.; Sheppard, A. I.; Sherrill, H. V.; Shorey, W. D.; Smythe, H. B.; Spalding, V. C.; Sullivan, J. D.; Taylor, R. W.; Tellalian, R. S.; Tenenbaum, E. A.; Thayer, W. R.; Toland, B. R.; Toll, O. W.; Townsend, C. W. B.; Tracy, P. S.; Vorrath, J. C.; Waldrop, E. W.; Waugh, H. B.; Westfeldt, P. M.; White, R. C.; Wiggin, L. M.; Wilson, J. H.; Young, F. B.

Sheffield Scientific School. Industrial Administration: Arnoldy, W. F., Jr.; DeSimone, R. E., Jr.; Fowler, W. E., Jr.; McOwen, W. K.; Pope, E. J., Jr. Physics: Burns, R. C.; Green, J.;Myerson, R. L.; Rosen, S.; Tobey, A. R. Mathematics: Carter, R. H.; Gleason, A. M.; Peck, L. C.; Walcek, E. J. Combined Forestry: Adelberg, e. A.; Turner, F. J. Geology: Eberlein, G. D.; Frisby, E. R.; Hendel, C. W., 3d. Biological Science: O'Looney, J. J. , Jr.

Bacteriology: Boyce, J. S., Jr. Chemistry: Alpert, M. B.; Averback, J. D.; Bowers, S. D.; Brooks, M. C.; Gould, D. H.; Talcott, R. M. Psychology: Cook, J. R. Applied Economics: Milius, W. F.Willets, E. A., Jr.

School of Engineering. Civil Engineering: Dell, H. K.; Harding, A. B., Jr.; Ingraham, I. E.; MacLeman, E. L. Electrical Engineering: Cohn, S. B.; Gordon, d. I.; Kelly, J. M.; Kelsey, J. R.; Pickus, E. H. Mechanical Engineering: Bonsal, R. I.; Boyle, R. J.; Melcher, C. H.; Warwick, T. M.; Cox, E. M.; Goring, G. E.; Greaves, H. L., Jr.; Keith, F. W., Jr.;Palmquist, W. W.; Rich, W. C., Jr.; Weirick, T. L. Metallurgy: Murphy, J. P.; Offinger, A. E.

[The following document was published in the Yale Daily News for March 13, 1942 (pp. 5-6). It was meant to be used by students and their advisors along with the regular "Course of Study" pamphlet. Subsequent issues of the News listed the advisors in the colleges and administrative offices who could help in planning.]

STUDENT PREPARATION FOR WAR SERVICE

SAVE--For Use in Planning Courses--SAVE
Published for Yale University by the "Yale Daily News"

The need for an accelerated educational program is part of the general imperative necessity for both speed and thoroughness. Our country must have thoroughly educated men and have them fast. We cannot afford to sacrifice thoroughness to speed, nor speed to thoroughness.

To meet these needs, Yale has made the following provisions.

1. It has accelerated its education so that a student may qualify for the degree of B.A., B.S., or B.E., in two years and seven months from his entrance into Yale. In doing this, Yale has in no way weakened the requirements for the degrees, nor has it merely instituted short summer courses, or other substitutes for the regular instruction. Instead, it has advanced the annual rate of instruction by introducing an additional regular term in each year, and has maintained all the standards of its degree including the comprehensive examination and the essay in the departmental major.

2. It has surveyed the fields of technical education, and secured information as to the requirements of various services. In those cases where specialized war courses were found to be desirable, it has developed such courses, but developed them as a part of an integrated technical course of study.

3. It has developed, within its existing liberal arts curriculum, a plan of basic preparation for service in the Army and Navy. This plan on the one hand, maintains in full the program of liberal education which long experience has found best adapted to developing students in intellectual and spiritual understanding and power. On the other hand, it directs this program toward a basic training which provides and carries forward into application, those basic skills found most valuable for leadership in the Army and Navy.

In the following pages, the student will find a comprehensive statement of the types of service for which he can qualify himself in pursuing his course of study at Yale: (1) a basic plan of general preparation for service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, war agencies, and war industries, and its relation to their requirements; (2) those sorts of special service for which technical training will fit him.

On the basis of this information the student must plan his education. The first step is to make himself thoroughly familiar with the Course of Study, and with the contents of this pamphlet. He must then ask himself where his interests and aptitudes lie, and where he can make himself most useful. In coming to a decision, he will be guided, to some extent, by the results of his physical examination.

In formulating a plan, the incoming student will be helped by his Freshman counselors. The student who has chosen his school, and is selecting his field of major study should seek the advice of the appropriate counselors. In Yale college, in addition to his college counselors and departmental advisers, special counselors on preparation for war service have been appointed in each residential college. In the Sheffield Scientific School and the School of Engineering, such counseling will be the function of the Deans and course officers.

PLAN OF GENERAL PREPARATION

All students over twenty, except those taking technical courses in the School of Engineering, are subject to call under the Selective Service Act. Yale's accelerated program will assist students to secure their degrees before being called up. Every student is advised to do all in his power to fully qualify for his degree before he becomes subject to call.

The same qualities and capacities are fundamental for effective service in the Army, the Navy, and in the Marine Corps. They have been officially recognized by the Navy in its instruction to colleges in the V-1 plan. These basic qualities and capacities are the major educational objectives which must govern the student's task of fitting himself for his place in the war effort. Taken together, they form a coherent plan of preparation for war service, an adaptation of the programs of Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School to his immediate needs.

I. PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

[In the original document, each of these has an explanatory paragraph, in some cases with courses designated]

1. Capacity for sound, incisive, and well-ordered thought.

2. Capacity for effective expression.

3. Capacity for mathematical computation.

4. Knowledge of scientific principles, and the capacity to apply them.

5. Proficiency in a foreign language. [German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese]

6. Understanding of American history and institutions.

7. Understanding of social and economic problems.

These primary intellectual objectives should be viewed by Yale College students in terms of the general program of study for a liberal arts degree. The first is a militant approach to the whole program of study, calling for action on the part of both student and teacher. The second is also general in scope, but with particular emphasis on the language requirements of the Basic Program of distribution, and on the course in English normally elected. The third coincides with the requirement under Systematic Thinking; the fourthwith that under Natural Science; the fifth with that under Modern Language. Of the sixth and seventhobjectives, one is covered by the requirement under Social Science.

II. ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Especially in Junior and Senior years, the student should use every opportunity to carry his basic war training forward by more advanced study. In most cases, he will find his electives ample for such additional training. He should endeavor to qualify himself in one of the following ways.

1. By more advanced study of mathematics, or of physics, in preparation for specialized training when in service.

2. By adding to his basic training in physics either a course in mathematics above 10Va.b, or a course in chemistry, and applying these in either of the following ways.

a. In the study of the scientific principles of communications in their practical application to the operation of instruments of communication. Electrical Engineering 21a.b is especially adapted to this purpose or Electrical Engineering 70 may be followed by Electrical Engineering 73 or 74.

b. In the study of the principles and operation of internal combustion engines. Mechanical Engineering 46a.b. is especially adapted to this purpose.

III. SPECIAL CAPACITIES

The student entering the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps will find certain specific capacities necessary in meeting varied situations which arise in every type of service. He should equip himself with these while in college, either by electing for credit the term courses which are provided, by making use of his privilege of audition, or by action on his own initiative. They are:

1. Capacity to read maps and charts. Civil Engineering 10s, 13, 70s, 70, 71a are designed to provide this training.

2. Capacity to care for oneself and others physically under all war conditions. Applied Physiology 63 has been reorganized to meet this practical need of men entering the armed forces, and will be supplemented by a demonstration period each week.

3. Good health and hard physical condition. This can only be assured by rigorous physical training. Yale's program of required physical training is designed to make its students physically fit, and efficient for the present day demands of life, either civil or military.

The plan is to give a thorough medical and physical examination, and tests for good body mechanics, strength, endurance and skills, which will be checked periodically for progress. After the examinations and tests, the student will be drilled in the following.

a. Body-building exercises designed to strengthen all of the large muscle groups; neck, shoulders, back, abdomen, arms and legs, followed by specialized activities leading to efficient movement demanded by the services; running obstacle courses, emphasizing vaulting, jumping high and long, climbing, crawling, falling, rolling and carrying. These movements will be executed individually, and then in combination, and on various types of terrain. In the present war of movement, men must be expert in these individual skills, and able to fend for themselves.

b. Manual labor on the Tomkins Preserve, chopping, sawing, and digging.

c. Individual combat (Boxing, Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu), and team combat (Football, Lacrosse, Hockey, Basketball).

d. Swimming: the ability to swim a fairly long distance and to stay afloat at least five minutes, to swim 100 yards fully clothed, to support another person fully clothed a certain time, and a thorough knowledge of rescue and artificial respiration.

Students whose medical, physical and orthopedic examinations show defects will be given corrective and remedial exercises, following well organized procedures long since established at Yale.

In addition to these basic requirements, the University will continue its program of Intercollegiate, Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman Varsity teams and the Inter-College and Freshman Intramural sports. These activities supplement the basic requirements by their physical, psychological, and social contributions.

The program is so arranged that the work will be intensified from Freshman to Senior year; so that when the student graduates he will not only be fundamentally fit, but will also have mastered any special body skills that the services may demand of him.

The above plan represents Yale's conception of the best general preparation for service in war and peace. It provides the solid foundation upon which qualification for promotion and specialization in the armed forces can be built. It requires of the student intelligent use of his opportunities, clear formulation of objectives, careful use of electives, and diligence in following his planned course. Above all, its values depend on constant self-imposed discipline of the sort imperative in war, conscious striving for rigorous and incisive thought, exactness of statement, promptness and attentiveness in carrying out assignments to the last detail. In it both student and teacher must work together with a common purpose.

[The rest of the document--about the same space as the text above--covers more specific recommendations of each of the armed services and conclusions about preparation for war agencies and war industries by the writers of the pamphlet.]

In response to a telegram, Secretary of the Army Henry L. Stimson wrote a letter to President Seymour dated March 19 giving the Army's needs for educational programs and virtually copying parts of the above "Plan." The letter was published in the News on March 30.

Yale Daily News - Spring Vacation 1942 (2)

[On Feb. 3, 1942, just prior to the freshmen expressing their preferences for residential colleges, the News published the names and titles of all the masters and fellows of the ten residential colleges. Copying these has recalled forcibly to your editor the great good fortune we had to be taught by, and in the constant company of, great men. I regret only that the list did not include the names and contributions to college life of the spouses who, in so many cases, meant much to their husbands' charges. Not to overload the e-mail server, I have split the colleges alphabetically into two groups. The second will appear as "Yale Daily News - spring Vacation (3)."]

Honorary Fellows of all the Colleges
President Charles Seymour.
President Emeritus James Rowland Angell.

BERKELEY COLLEGE
Master
Samuel Burdett Hemingway, Professor of English.
Fellows
John Maudgridge Snowden Allison, Randolph W. Townsend, Jr., Professor of History.
Charlton Dows Cooksey, Assistant Professor of Physics.
Sumner McKnight. Crosby, Assistant Professor of the History of Art.
C live Day, Seymour H. Knox Professor of Political-Economy, Emeritus.
Albert Gabriel Feuillerat, Sterling Professor of French.
Sherman Kent, Assistant Professor of History.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, 2d, Instructor in History.
Russell Godine Pruden, Associate Curator of the Edward M. House Collection.
Richard Little Purdy, Assistant Professor of English.
Carl Frederick Schreiber, Leavenworth Professor of German Language and Literature.
Jerome Sperling, Instructor in Classics.
Charles Leslie Stevenson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
James Kelsey Whittemore, Associate Professor of Mathematics.
Harold Francis Williamson, Assistant Professor of Economics.
Alexander Maclaren Witherspoon, Associate Professor of English.
Walter Jacob Wohlenberg, Sterling Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Associate Fellows
Marcel Aubert, Professor of the History of Art.
Ferdinand Lammot Belin, Ph.B. 1901.
Francis Woolsey Bronson, Editor Yale Alumni Magazine.
Rev. Thomas Huntington Chappell, B.A. 1928.
Russell Henry Chittenden, Director of the Sheffield Scientific School, Emeritus.
Edward Jordan Dimock, Lecturer in Law.
Harold Leighton Fates, Executive Secretary of the Alumni Board.
Henri Focillon, Professor of the History of Art.
William Edward Schenck Griswold, B.A 1899.
Frederick Scheetz Jones, Dean of Yale College, Emeritus.
Paul Mellon, B.A. 1929.
Charles Nagel, Jr., B.A. 1923.
George Wharton Pepper, LL.D. 1914.
Duncan Phillips, B.A. 1908.
Orville Forrest Rogers, Director of the Department of University Health.
George Dudley Seymour, honorary M.A. 1913.
John Tresidder Sheppard, Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
David Stanley Smith; Battell Professor of the Theory of Music.
Thomas Walter Swan, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
George Edward Woodbine, George Burton Adams Professor of History.

BRANFORD COLLEGE
Master
Clarence Whittlesey Mendell, Durham Professor of the Latin Language and Literature.
Fellows
Norman Sydney Buck, Dean of the Freshman Year.
Robert Woodham Daniel, Instructor in English.
Glanville Downey, Librarian, School of the Fine Arts.
Allen Tracy Hazen, Research Assistant in Bibliography.
George Lincoln Hendrickson, Lampson Professor of Latin and Greek Literature, Emeritus.
Erwin Burr Kelsey, Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Assistant Professor of Government.
Carroll Louis Vanderslice Meeks, Assistant Professor of the History o f Art.
William Gamwell Moulton, Instructor in German.
George Henry Nettleton, Lamson Professor of English.
Oystein Ore, Sterling Professor of Mathematics.
Nathaniel Burton Paradise, Associate Curator of Manuscripts.
William Learned Peltz, Clinical Instructor in Medicine.
William Ruff, Assistant Professor of English.
Charles Joseph Tilden, Strathcona Professor of Engineering Mechanics, Emeritus.
Lorande Loss Woodruff, Professor of Protozoology.

Associate Fellows
Edward Grant Buckland, LL.B. 1889.
Rev. George A. Buttrick, D.D. 1932.
Malcolm Farmer, Former Director of Athletics.
Allen Evarts Foster, B.A. 1906.
Hamilton Hadley, B.A. 1919.
John Loomer Hall, B.A. 1894.
Carroll Clark Hincks, B.A. 1911.
David Russell Lyman, M.D. (honorary M.A. 1916).
Augustus Newbold Morris, B.A. 1925.
John Rodman Paul, Professor of Preventive Medicine.
William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus.
Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, Director of Archaeological Studies.
Eugene Francis Savage, William Leffingwell Professor of Painting.
Thomas Day Thacher, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
George Dudley Vaill, Secretary of the Class Reunion Bureau.
William Francis Verdi, Clinical Professor of Surgery.
John Munro Woolsey, B.A. 1898.
CALHOUN COLLEGE
Master
Arnold Whitridge, Professor of History, the Arts, and Letters.
Fellows
Rudolph John Anderson, Professor of Chemistry.
Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, Sterling Professor of English.
Fred Rogers Fairchild, Knox Professor of Economics.
Gordon Sherman Haight, Assistant Professor of English.
Kent Tenney Healy, Associate Professor of Economics.
Raymond Thompson Hill, Associate Professor of French.
Philip Gustave Laurson, Associate Professor of Engineering Mechanics
Frank Monaghan, Assistant Professor of History
Stephen Winsor Reed, Instructor in Sociology.
Robert Selden Rose, Street Professor of Modern Languages.
Robert Charles Lewis Scott, Instructor in History.
Edmund Taite Silk, Associate Professor of Latin.
Alan Tower Waterman, Associate Professor of Physics.
Stanley Thomas Williams, Colgate Professor of English.
Associate Fellows
George Townsend Adee, B.A. 1895.
Richard Steere Aldrich, B.A. 1906.
Leonard Bacon, B.A. 1909.
Stephen Vincent Benet, B.A. 1919.
Allerton Frank Brooks, Ph.B. 1911.
Peter Henry Buck, Director of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
Mortimer Norton Buckner, Former Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Stuart Holmes Clement, Associate Director of the Student Personnel Department.
James Dwight Dana, B.A. 1911.
James Cowan Greenway, Director of the Department of University Health, Retired.
Richard Arthur Kimball, B.A. 1922.
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Cyril Norman Hugh Long, Sterling Professor of Physiological Chemistry.
Frank Alonzo McMullan, Assistant Professor of Play Production.
Douglas Stuart Moore, B.A. 1915.
John Hill Morgan, Curator of American Painting.
Douglas Orr, M.F.A. 1927.
Rev. T. Lawrason Riggs, B.A. 1910.
Carl Purington Rollins, Printer to the University.
John Charles Schroeder, Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology.
Joseph Rockwell Swan, B.A. 1902.
Vanderbilt Webb, B.A. 1913.

DAVENPORT COLLEGE
Master
Emerson Tuttle, Curator of Prints in the University.
Fellows
Richard Mervin Bissell, Jr., Assistant Professor of Economics.
Philip Bishop Cowles, Associate Professor of Immunology.
Frederick Sherwood Dunn, Professor of International Relations.
Howard Theodore Engstrom, Associate Professor of Mathematics.
Archibald Smith Foord, Instructor in History.
Leonard Woods Labaree, Associate Professor of History.
Maynard Mack, Assistant Professor of English:
Champion Herbert Mathewson, Professor of Metallurgy and Metallography.
Daniel Merriman, Instructor in Biology.
Max Franklin Millikan, Assistant Professor of Economics.
George Moseley Murphy, Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
George Wilson Pierson, Associate Professor of History.
Frederick Albert Pottle, Professor of English.
Theodore Sizer, Director of the Art Gallery.
William Leonard Stevens Jr., Instructor in English.
Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Sterling Professor of English Literature.
Lewis Edwin York, Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting.
Associate Fellows
Dean Gooderham Acheson, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Malcolm Pratt Aldrich, B.A. 1922.
Charles McLean Andrews, Farnam Professor of American History, Emeritus.
James Tinkham Babb, Assistant Librarian of the University.
Ludlow Bull, Research Associate in Egyptology.
Starling Winston Childs, B.A. 1891.
Norman Vaux Donaldson, Secretary of the Yale University Press.
Thomas Wells Farnam, Associate Treasurer and Comptroller of the University.
Curtis Philip Fields, Executive Secretary of the Yale Alumni University Fund Association.
Edward Belden Greene, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Rev. Sidney Lovett, Chaplain of the University.
Archibald MacLeish, B.A. 1915.
Albert Eide Parr, Director of the Peabody Museum.
Harry Shulman, Sterling Professor of Law.
Bruce Simonds, Dean of the School of Music.
Malcolm Rutherford Thorpe, B.A.1913.
Frederick Holme Wiggin, B.A. 1904.
Thornton Niven Wilder, B.A. 1920.

JONATHAN EDWARDS COLLEGE
Master
Robert Dudley French, Professor of English.
Fellows
John Chester Adams, Director of Undergraduate Literary Activities.
Edward Wight Bakke, Professor of Economics.
Robert Chapman Bates, Assistant Professor of French.
Edgar John Boell, Associate Professor of Biology.
Stuart Robert Brinkley, Associate Professor of Chemistry.
Beekman Cox Cannon, Instructor in Music.
Lewis Perry Curtis, Assistant Professor of History.
Joseph Toy Curtiss, Assistant Professor of English.
Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough, Professor of the History of Religion.
Hajo Holborn, Professor of History.
George Alexander Kubler, Instructor in the History of Art.
Egbert J. Miles, Associate Professor of Mathematics.
Walter Richard Miles; Professor of Psychology.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Jr., Assistant Professor Greek.
Holkins Dillingham Palmer, Instructor in Architectural Design.
Ernest Charles Pollard, Assistant Professor of Physics.
Associate Fellows
H. Frank Bozyan, Assistant Professor of Organ Playing.
Allen Buck, in charge of the University News Bureau.
Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Albert Beecher Crawford, Director of the Student Personnel Department and of the Bureau of Appointments.
Edgar Stephenson Furniss, Provost of the University, and Dean of the Graduate School.
Arthur Lehman Goodhart, B.A. 1912.
Roswell Gray Ham, Former Associate Professor of English.
Austin Morris Harmon, Lampson Professor of Greek.
Paul Hindemith, Professor of the Theory of Music.
Charles Beecher Hogan, Curator, Rare Book Room, University Library.
Alvin Saunders Johnson, Former Professor of Economics.
Carl Albert Lohmann, Secretary of the University.
Richard Swan Lull, Sterling Professor of Paleontology, and Director of the Peabody Museum, Emeritus.
Maurise Emil Henri Rotival, Lecturer in City Planning,
Frank Schlesinger, Professor of Astronomy, and Director of the Observatory, Emeritus.
Robert Alphonso Taft, Fellow of the Yale corporation.
Karl Young, Sterling Professor of English

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Yale Daily News - Spring Vacation 1942 (3)

[This completes the lists of masters and fellows of residential colleges begun in "Yale Daily News - Spring Vacation 1942 (2)."]

PIERSON COLLEGE
Master
Arnold Wolfers, Professor of International Relations.

FellowsIrston Robert Barnes, Assistant Professor of Economics.
Franklin LeVan Baumer, Instructor in History.
Wendell Clark Bennett, Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Jean Boorsch, Associate Professor of Freneh
William Clyde DeVane, Dean of Yale College.
William Glover Fletcher, Instructor in International Relations.
Richard Foster Flint, Associate Professor of Geology.
George Heard Hamilton, Instructor in the History of Art.
Charles William Hendel, Professor of Moral Philosophy.
James Graham Leyburn, Associate, Professor of the Science of Society.
Theodor Ernst Mommsen, Instructor in History.
Andrew Richmond Morehouse, Associate Professor of French.
Benjamin Christie Nangle, Associate Professor of English
Stanley McCrory Pargellis, Assistant Professor of History.
Harry Rudolph Rudin. Associate Professor of History.
John Edward Vance, Associate Professor of Chemistry.
Eugene Mersereau Waith, Instructor in English.
William Weldon Watson Professor of Physics.
Charles Bradford Welles, Professor of Ancient History.

Associate Fellows
Frank Altschul. B.A. 1908
Robert Nelson Corwin, Chairman of the Board of Admissions, Emeritus.
Eugene Arthur Davidson, Editor of the Yale University Press.
George Parmly Day, Treasurer of the University. .
Robert Frost, Litt.D. 1924
John Farquhar Fulton, Sterling Professor of Physiology.
Walton Hale Hamilton, Southmayd Professor of Law.
Philip Hofer A. B., Harvard University 1921.
Robert James Menner, Professor of English.
Fred Towsley Murphy, Former Fellow of the Yale Corporation
Garrison Norton, A.B. Harvard University 1923.
Wallace Notestein, Sterling Professor of English History.
Reeve Schley, Fellow of the Yale Corporation
Henry Gordon Sweet, Ph.B. 1926.
Alan Valentine, Former Master of Pierson College.
George Van Santvoord, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Herbert Eustis Winlock, Litt.D. 1933.

SAYBROOK COLLEGE

Master
Elliott Dunlap Smith, Professor of Economics
Fellows
José Joan Arrom , Instructor in Spanish.
Alfred Raymond Bellinger, Lampson Professor of Latin.
Frank Edward Brown, Assistant Professor of Classics.
Robert Lowry Calhoun, Professor of Historical Theology.
Harold Glenn Dietrich, Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
William Douglas, Curator of Glass and Ceramics in the Art Gallery.
William Huse Dunham, Jr., Associate Professor of History.
Hans Ratus Fadum, Assistant in Instruction in Economics.
John Archer Gee, Associate Professor of English.
Richard Glenn Gettell, Assistant Professor of Economics.
Harold Dana Hauf, Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering.
Basil Duke Henning, Instructor in History.
George Evelyn Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Zoology.
Albert Galloway Keller, William Graham Sumner Professor of the Science of Society.
Angelo Lipari, Professor of Italian.
Louis Lohr Martz, Instructor in English.
Everett Victor Meeks, Dean of the School of the Fine Arts.
Sydney Knox Mitchell, Durfee Professor of History.
Cornelius Osgood, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Associate Fellows
Kan-Ichi Asakawa, Professor of History.
Marshall Bartholomew, Director of Undergraduate Musical Activities.
Samuel Flagg Bemis, Farnam Professor of Diplomatic History.
Rev. Arthur Howe Bradford, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
LeGrand Cannon Jr., Ph.B. 1910.
James Wayne Cooper, Lecturer in the School of Law.
Arthur Linton Corbin, William K. Towsend Professor of Law.
Barnett Fred Dodge, Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Samuel William Dudley, Dean of the School of Engineering.
Walter Prichard Eaton, Associate Professor of Playwriting
Morris Hadley. Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Samuel Clark Harvey, William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery.
Bernhard Knollenberg. University Librarian
Rev. Carl Herman Kraeling, Buckingham professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation.
Stanley Russell McCandless, Associate Professor of Lighting.
Ashley Webster Oughterson Associate Professor of Surgery.
Leigh Page Professor of Mathematical Physics.
James Gamble Rogers, B.A. 1889.
Frederick Ely Williamson, B.A. 1898.

SILLIMAN COLLEGE
Master
Filmer S. .C. Northrop, Professor of Philosophy.

Fellows
Theodore Babbitt, Assistant Dean of Freshman Year.
Alan Mara Bateman, Professor of Economic Geology.
Adolph Burnett Benson, Professor of German and Scandinavian.
Robert Maynard Brick, Instructor in Metallurgy.
Harold Saxton Burr, E. K. Hunt Professor of Anatomy.
Christopher Mounsey Dawson, Instructor in Classics.
Frederic Brenton Fitch, Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
Marshall Hall, Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Alois Francis Kovarik, Professor of Physics.
Henry Margenau, Associate Professor of Physics.
Donald George Marquis, Associate Professor of-Psychology.
John Perry Miller, Assistant Professor of Economics.
Leslie Frederick Nims, Assistant Professor of Physiology.'.
Luther Melancthon Noss, Assistant Professor of Organ Playing.
John- Collins Pope, Assistant Professor of English. .
Richard Adams Rathbone, Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting.
Richard Benson Sewall, Assistant Professor of English.
Lyman Spitzer Jr., Instructor in Astronomy, and Physics.
William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr., Instructor in English:

Associate Fellows
Winchester Bennett, Ph.B. 1897.
Augustus Silliman Blagden, Ph.B.,1901.
Francis Gilman Blake, Dean of the School of Medicine.
John Frederic Byers, B.A. 1904.
Henry Seidel Canby, Lecturer in History.
Charles Edward Clark, Lecturer in Law .
Arnold Guyot Dana, B.A. 1883.
John Wesley Hanes, Fellow of the Yale Corporation:
Hudson Bridge Hastings, Professor of Economics.
Arthur Joseph Hill, Professor of Organic Chemistry.
Henry Stuart Hotchkiss, PhB. 1900.
Charles Merz, B.A. 1915.
Edwin Pugsley, B.A. 1908.
Wilmon Henry Sheldon, Sheldon Clark Professor of Philosophy.
Edmund Ware Sinnott, Sterling Professor of Botany.
Donald Goddard Wing, Head of the Accessions Department, University Library.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT COLLEGE
Master
James Grafton Rogers, Professor of Law.

Fellows
John Williams Andrews, Assistant in Instruction in History.
Richard Cushman, Carroll, Assistant Dean of Yale College.
Francis William Coker, Alfred Cowles Professor of Government.
Thomas Wellsted Copeland, Assistant Professor of. English.
Jack Randall Crawford, Associate Professor of English.
Cecil Herbert Driver, Associate Professor of Government.
Alfred Whitney Griswold, Assistant. Professor of. Government and International Relations.
Ashbel Green Gulliver, Dean of the School of Law.
Howard Wilcox Haggard, Director of the Laboratory story of Applied Physiology.
Loomis Havemeyer, Associate Dean of the Sheffield Scientific School.
Robert John Herman Kiphuth, Director of the Gymnasium.
Bronislaw Malinowski, Bishop Museum Visiting Professor of Anthropology.
Henri Maurice Peyre, Sterling Professor of French.
John Marshall Phillips, Assistant Professor of the History of Art.
Eugene Victor Rostow, Associate Professor of Law.
Kenneth Merwin Spang, Instructor in Economics.
Joshua Irving Tracey, Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Associate Fellows
Edwin Borchard, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law.
John Rensselaer Chamberlain, Ph.B. 1925.
Hendon Chubb, Ph.B. 1895.
Albert Godfrey Conrad, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Wilbur Lucius Cross, Dean of the Graduate School, Emeritus.
Ward Davenny, Instructor in Pianoforte Playing.
Winthrop Edwards Dwight, B.A. 1893,
Henry Solon Graves, Dean of the School of Forestry, Emeritus.
Deane Keller, Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting.
Gilbert Kinney, B.A. 1905.
James Lee Loomis, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Ogden Dayton Miller, Director of Athletics.
Walter Millis, B.A. 1920.
Benton Brooks Owen, Associate Professor of Chemistry.
Justice Owen Josephus Roberts.
Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Henry Lewis Stimson, B.A. 1888.
Lewis Thorne, Assistant Psychiatrist in the Department of University Health.
Laurence Gotzian Tighe, Associate Treasurer of the University.
Hugh Robert Wilson, B.A. 1906.

TRUMBULL COLLEGE
Master
Charles Hyde Warren, Dean of the Sheffield Scientific School, and Professor of Mineralogy.

Fellows
Werner Bergmann, Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
Ralph. Henry Gabriel, Larned Professor of American History.
Lansing Van der Heyden Hammond, Instructor in English.
Frederick Whiley Hilles, Associate Professor of English.
Harry Mortimer Hubbell, Talcott Professor of Greek.
George Edward Lewis, Instructor and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Klaus Liepmann, Assistant Director of the University Orchestras.
John Spangler Nicholas, Sterling Professor of Biology.
Edward Simpson Noyes, Chairman of the Board of Admissions.
Eugene Ernest Oakes, Assistant Professor of Economics.
Joseph Seronde, .Benjamin F. Barge Professor of Romance Languages and Literature.
Roscoe Henry Suttie, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering.
Willard. Boulette Van Houten, Instructor in Economics.

Associate Fellows
Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Professor of Bacteriology.
Frederick Trubee Davison, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Richard Donovan, Associate Professor of the Theory of Music.
Hollón Augustine Farr, Curator of Yale Memorabilia.
Samuel Herbert Fisher, Former Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
Clements Collard Fry, Lecturer in Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene.
Frederick Augustus Godley,Associate Professor of Architecture.
Andrew Keogh, University Librarian. Emeritus.
William Raymond Longley, James E. English Professor of Mathematics.
Chester Ray Longwell, Henry Barnard Davis Professor of Geology..
Mark Arthur May, Director of the Institute of Human Relations.
Underhill Moore, Sterling Professor of Law.
Allardyce Nicoll, Professor of the History of the Drama
Edward Larned Ryerson, Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
George Henry Soule Jr, B.A. 1908.
Rev.Anson Phelps Stokes, Former Secretary of the University.
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, Anna M. R Lauder Professor of Public Health.
Milton Charles Winternitz, Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology.

Yale Daily News for the week of
March 30, 1942

Yale Dismisses 3 Coaches as War Economy Measure. Joe Wood (baseball), Ben Thomson (golf), William Hinchcliff (tennis for 29 years). "Because of the University's responsibility to stress sports on a group basis as training for special combat service, and because of the economic exigencies occasioned by war conditions."

U.S. May Grant Direct Subsidies to Aid Students. Outright Financial Aid Proposed for Colleges With Speedup Program."....something less than $50,000,000 for colleges and 'necessary' students has been proposed by the United States Office of Education." 135,000 students in 200 colleges and universities, those who "could prove their need in the fields of engineering, chemistry, physics, production supervision, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy, where the need for manpower exists."

Nicholas Spykman Writes New Book. Professor Discusses US in World Politics. "In his latest book entitled America's Strategy in World Politics Nicholas J. Spykman, Sterling Professor of International Relations, emphasizes the extreme danger to the United States of a German-Japanese victory in Europe and Asia."

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Yearling Slings Slang To Cop Cola Contest. "Eli freshman David W. Aiken, inspired by the recent floods of Princeton jargon, emerged the winner of a Pepsi-Cola college slang contest recently. College papers throughout the country will carry Aiken's entry, which brought him $10, in the Pepsi-Cola series during the month of April. Supposedly a sample of collegiate slang, his entry reads, "For the lick side of a yell ditch that'd guzzle your inlet, you shoulda spread your buckets under the Pepsi-Cola they oiled the swamps with at the kangaroo kennel." [Ed. note: compare with lyrics for Pygmalion in "The Waterbury Tales".]

Required Sports For All students Will Start Today [3/30]. 2200 Out for Teams; Remainder Will Report For Gym Classification. "Men scheduled to play in rained-out games will report to the gym for body-building on the afternoon their game was scheduled, baseball at 3, softball at 4, tennis at 5."

Second Eli Naval Flying Unit Upholds Blue tradition Set in World War I. Potential Air battlers Fulfill Ground Training at Florida Air Center. "After two months of introductory training at Floyd Bennett Field, Yale's second Naval flying Unit reported at Jacksonville in January to be molded into what Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox calls 'the best, toughest pilots in the world,' fighting airmen of the U. S. Navy." Class of 1942 members of the unit were William M. Brinton, Sheffield Phelps, Douglas B. Houser, Jr., Richard B. Dominick, and Douglas M. Smith.

[Arnold] Whitridge Leaves University To Accept Army Commission. Master of Calhoun Will be Major in Army's Combat Intelligence Attached to Army Air Corps.

John Schroeder Named to Head Calhoun College. Divinity School Teacher, Now Associate Fellow, To Succeed Whitridge. Will serve as Acting Master.

CAA Fliers Ready For Solo Flights. Group includes W. Liscum Borden, already signed up with Army Air Corps.

Draftees May Be Made Officers Only Six Months After Induction. "... after three months of preliminary induction training the draftee has the chance to receive an officer's commission only six months after induction. There are two systems of applying for the commission received from these schools: 1) Join the army by enlistment or voluntary induction if you are not already in it and apply for an appointment through your commanding officer; 2) if you are already in the Army, apply to your Commanding Officer. . . . Eligible men are those between 18 and 45 with some education, a good record in civil life and marked qualifications of leadership. The only limitatiion is that applicants must have a rating or 110 or better in the general classification test which is given to all men entering the Army. At present the Army is seeking 75,000 officers and intends to select at the outset 95,000 'eligible' men to compete for commissions in the Officer Candidate Schools. Upon the completion of the course successful applicants will be commissioned second lieutenants. Officers may then be put on active duty or be given advanced training after which they may be promoted to any rank they are capable to fill."

[Excerpt from an opinion piece by Seth Taft] An Eternal Spectre. "Two weeks ago Americans paid the largest income tax ever imposed on the country. To keep the people from squawking at the size of that one, Henry Morgenthau announced a week before it had to be paid that the income tax in 1943 would put this relatively puny one to shame. There appeared to be three good reasons for having more taxes: 1) to pay now for as much of the war expense as possible; 2) to stop inflation; 3) to prevent excess profits in industry. These are probably the chief functions of taxation in wartime. . . . There can be no doubt now that industry is no longer seeking sensational profits and paying huge dividends. The new bill proposes to tax profits up to 88%."

Eli Mermen Capture Initial NCAA Crown After Decisive Victory in Intercollegiates. The Yale Firsts Down Eastern College Rivals; Chouteau Heads Array. "Yale swimmers annexed ten out of eleven titles in the fifth annual Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships when they swept first place in every event except the 50-yard freestyle against natators from 15 colleges in the Payne Whitney Exhibition Pool Friday and Saturday, March 20 and 21. The Blue machine was functioning in high gear as Rene Chouteau took three first places by virtue of wins in the 220-yard freestyle, the 300-yard individual medley, and the 440-yard freestyle, while Howie Johnson, Danny Dannenbaum, Johnny Meyer, and Jim Cook mowed down the best collegiate mermen in the East."

Blue Poloists Win Eastern Title, Downing Tigers in Overtime, 4-3. [Dave] Wilhelm's Score in First Minutes of Extra Period Breaks Deadlock to Give Elis Townsend Trophy.

Harvard Regatta Moved to Derby. From New London: 2 miles instead of 4; May 31, not June.

Jiu Jitsu Course To Teach Yale Men Art of Hand-to-Hand Combat in War.

Bike Racing Possible As Military Training. Kiphuth Endorses Idea.

Gov. Saltonstall to Speak Today In Law School. Leverett Saltonstall on the relationsip of state and federal governments in time of war. In 1938, Saltonstall defeated "Jim" Curley in the race for Governor. Curley "had dominated the political scene in Massachusetts for more than twenty-five years as governor and many times mayor of Boston."

Songsters Take Vacation Tour. Glee Club Follows Up South American Trip. Sing in Greenwich, Haverford, Wilmington, and Washington (Pan American Union at the Hall of the Americas).

Ford First to Win Pierson Award. "Recipient of the recently announced $1000 Pierson college Fellowship in the Social Sciences is a member of Davenport College. On the recommendation of Mr. Arnold Wolfers, Master of Pierson, The Yale Law School announced that William Ford, chairman of the 1942 News Board, will be the first to hold the new scholarship." For one year of aid in graduate work.

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Dwight Hall Backs Drive to Clean Unsanitary Dixwell Avenue Slums. Twelve Elis, Five Vassarites Spend Spring Vacations Surveying and Removing Trash From Negro Quarters. The City of New Haven collects only garbage, not trash.

[Opinion piece] The Fellows of the Corporation.  " 'The Corporation technically owns the University and transacts its business, controls its policies.' Such was the description of this August body in yesterday's News. Of the sixteen active members of Yale's oligarchy ten hold permanent tenure, while the other six are alumni fellows, elected one a year for six years by the alumni. This year Senator Robert A. Taft is a candidate for reelection. Even before the voting outcome of the election is assured, Republican Senator Taft will need none of his political acumen to sweep the ballot. But what difference would it make if Taft were to be defeated? By his defeat the personnel of the Corporation would be little changed. Opposing Mr. Taft is one New York lawyer, two investment bankers, and one insurance vice-president. . . . any of these candidates could be chosen as the perfect stereotype of a Corporation member. The present body consists of seven members of Skull and Bones, three of Scroll and Key, two of Wolf's Head, two of Elihu, and one of St. Anthony, with but a single non-Society member--hardly a perfect cross section of the entire alumni group. As for occupations there are three clergymen, two industrialists, four financiers, five lawyers, one writer, and one preparatory school headmaster."

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Government Eschews April Fool's Day States White House Secretary Early. Loss of 120 Million Man-Hours Last Year is Cited As Ground for Request to Avoid Wasteful Pranks. "Over the radio at 5 this morning and consequently too late for either the New York Times or Herald-Tribune came a special White House announcement from Stephen Early, secretary to the President. 'The white House is asking all civilians to cooperate wth the war armament program now in effect in regard to April Fool's Day. . . We are requesting citizens to refrain from pranks that ordinarily are associated with April 1,' said Early. 'With nationwide participation likely to be even larger this year than in the past, officials of the War Productions Board fear that considerable man-hours may be lost in perpetrating and recovering from jokes. Also the traditional April Fool trick of exchanging sugar and salt to each other's container is certainly unpatriotic this year because of the waste of sugar that would go on.' Early continued by revealing that the nation wasted 120 million man-hours April Fooling last year. 'If applied for defense,' said he, 'this staggering total of effort would do work equal in amount to the building of four battleships and an aircraft carrier . . . or twelve million Garand rifles for the Army.' It was also reported from Washington that the Office of Civilian Defense has already stationed lookout men in principal defense plants to stop and report any undue April Fool's Day activity. . . . Restrictions do not only apply to defense workers, however. Such civilian activity as calling up the zoo and asking for Mr. Fish is definitely not wanted because it tends to clog up the telephone lines. Early said he realized that the government's attitude might be construed as somewhat petty, but, 'we are all out for victory now and every moment must count to the full.'"

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[Editorial] Deep Knee Bend. "Last term a lot of people worried that Yale undergraduates couldn't take it. They thought compulsory body-building would elicit nothing but complaints, 'griping,' and a poor spirit in general. After a week of operation, however, it seems that their every fear has proved groundless. Yale men not only can take it, they can laugh at it. . . . From Timothy Dwight to Pierson they were trekking to the Tower Parkway emporium with manly paces, heads erect, and shoulders back, emerging what seemed hours later, exhausted yet proud of a good day's work.. . . . The classes themselves are little more than a long series of grunts and groans, flayed by a voice that never runs out of different ways to build muscles. . . . The old adage that has been in such evidence since Pearl Harbor is proving itself all over again at Yale--the height of wartime morale varies in proportion to the amount of sacrifice a person is making for the war effort. The more time and effort, the higher is morale."

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Yale Daily News for the week of
April 6, 1942

Mermen Capture AAU Title By Margin of 52 Points. 50-yard freestyle--Kelly, 23.0 sec.; 100-yard freestyle--Johnson, 51 sec.; 150-yard backstroke-- Dannenbaum, 1:35.5; 200-yard breaststroke--Meyer, 2:24.7; 220-yard freestyle-- Johnson, 2:09.3; 440-yard freestyle-- Chouteau, 4:42.8; 300-yard individual medley-- Chouteau, 3:32.4; 300-yard medley relay-- Dannenbaum, Davidge, Johnson, 2:52.4; 200-yard freestyle relay-- F. Lilley, Kelly, Pope, Johnson, 1:34.7; 400-yard freestyle relay-- Johnson, F. Lilley, Kelly, Pope, 3:26.6.[Editorial] Laurels for the Victors. "Breaking every significant Yale record on the books, vanquishing their chief rival in the country by a margin of forty-three points, and accomplishing a score of their outstanding triumphs, Bob Kiphuth and his unprecedented aggregation of swimming talent wound up their undefeated season last Saturday in a blaze of glory. The fact that they won only one individual event in the AAU competition but chalked up a team total of fifty-nine points in indicative of the balanced strength Yale could muster this year. Stars all, the team will be remembered for many a year to come in the annals of Yale athletic history. After the meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan coach Matt Mann called it 'the greatest team every assembled, including any Olympic team.' So it was, and both Bob Kiphuth and his charges can now relax in the knowledge that the predictions of last January and hopes of all the squad were not unfounded."

[David Stanley] Smith's 'Requiem' Will Have Debut. Ruth Possett Will Solo in Woolsey Hall Tonight.

Four Faculty Members Receive Guggenheim Foundation Awards. Assistant Professors Lewis Perry Curtis, 1923; Alfred Whitney Griswold, 1929] Maynard Mack, 1932. Associate Professor Edmund Taite Silk, 1924.

Tap Day on April 23; Admission By Card Only. William C. DeVane, Dean of Yale College, announced Saturday that the traditional Tap Day ceremonies will be held in the courtyard of Branford College on April 23 at 5. As last year admission will be by card only.

Ex-Yale Fledglings Speak Over WELI. George H. Page, 1939, and Polk Laffoon III, ex-1942, now in training with the Army Air Force, will speak from Randolph Field, Texas, on WELI tonight at 9.45. They will discuss their first flight instruction, life in the Texas barracks, ground instruction, and aerial battle tactics in a special broadcast to honor 'Yale's fighting men' in the air Corps. . . . Both men are on the last lap of their 35-week training course. Having successfully completed the basic training they are now entitled to the rank of 'Cadet'."

WOCD Will Give Code Instruction. Training recommended for V-1, V-7 Students. "WOCD will inaugurate a series of classes in International Morse Code this evening at 7:15.. . . . The first classes, conducted by undergraduates, will stress the methods of memorizing the code."

Actress-Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee Tells Bare Facts of Literary Career. Writer of 'G-String Murders' Elected to Pundits; Calls Burlesque Censorship 'Restraint of Fair Trade.'

Kirkpatrick Plays in Sprague Tonight. "Ralph Kirkpatrick, Visiting Lecturer and Instructor of Harpsichord Playing in the School of Music . . . recognized by many critics as America's finest harpsichordist . . . will devote the evening to the music of Johann Bach."

Glee Club to Sing on [Oscar] Levant Program. Concert in Bridgeport. "Mr. Levant will present a concert of piano music with comments by himself, while the Glee club will offer three groups of songs."

Elizabethan Club Elects. John de P. Hasbrouck, 1942.

Priority Clamp-Down Seizes Bicycles. Footsore Elis Must Hike For Duration. An order from the War Production Board "prohibiting the sale, shipment, delivery or transfer of all new bicycles after 11:59 Thursday night [4/9]." The order was announced "because of the terrific rate at which bicycles have been going to people who don't need them, with too few going to people like defense workers who have to have them now or soon will need them."

New York City Critic Discusses State During Wartime. John Mason Brown Calls [Robert] Sherwood and [Lillian] Hillman Leading Playwrights. Sherwood for There Shall Be No Night, Hellman for Watch on the Rhine.

Dramat Presents World Premiere. Leggett Fantasy Set to Open on April 23. "An original fantasy by John W. Leggett, 1942, entitled Train Time, or You Can Whip Our Cream but You Can't Beat Our Milk. . . . Leggett, last year's vice-president of the Dramat and star of its last production, Too Much Johnson, has earned for himself the title of 'The rich man's William Saroyan' for the quality of his wit and the human style of his writing. Nevertheless, he promises to burn the oil and work like a benzidrone and, in the tradition of the theatre, promises that 'The show will go on.' "The play itself treats the quandary of an undergraduate hero in any place or time--except war time. His three-horned dilemma is the choice between a career, a solid family life, and a life of ease. The problem is settled in one act of comic situations and mirthful incidents."

'Patriotism is Taking and Liking It,' Says Eric Knight, Speaker in TD. Author of This Above All, The Flying Yorkshireman, Has Recently Returned from War-Rationed Britain. "'Patriotism in this war means taking what the government does to you and liking it,' said Eric Knight, British author . . .in a News interview."

Luce 'News' Speech Called Blarney By Gardner in Latest 'Lit' Blast. Chairman Sees Talk as Demand to 'Stop Thinking": "America's Golden Age" Just So Much Imperialism.

Smith Girls Interned For Duration of Mumps. According to latest reports from the quarantined Smith Campus, Mumps, Measles and Scarlet Fever are still blitzing the hallowed halls of yearning, and no inmates may set foot in Northampton or leave the college except by car. But the most disastrous news from the feminine front was the Junior Prom spring offensive, scheduled for later this month, may be canceled.

Ted Harrison Honored At Testimonial Dinner. "Ted Harrison, star football and baseball player and hockey captain, was the guest of honor at a testimonial dinner at the Rainbow Inn last night. The dinner was given by members of Dept. H, High Standard Manufacturing Company of New Haven, where Harrison worked during spring vacation."

Yale Drama School to Present Satire. "Glow-Worms" by Taylor Ridicules 'Debutramps'. "A satire on New York society euphemistically entitled The Glow-Worms will be presented on the main stage of the University Theater this afternoon at 5. Author of this three-act satire is Robert W. Taylor, 1942. . . . The play is a satire about the artificial manners and false conventions which go into the seemingly all-important task of bringing a girl out. It destroys the illusion of glamor on three levels: before, during, and after the debutante year. Most of the action during the play takes place in and about the Ostrich Club, popular rendezvous of all the glitter 'gals' and their hangers-on and hang-overs. Taylor's characters are theoretically based on life."

[Advt. From Fenn-Feinstein.] FENN-FEINSTEIN QUALITY MEETS AMERICA'S NEED FOR "WOOL CONSERVATION" / The Civilian equivalent of "KEEP 'EM ROLLING" is "MAKE 'EM LAST." Today we must conserve vital materials . . . Buy good quality when we do . . . so that it will last us better. One more way to make CLOTHES WEAR LONGER is to buy the best . . . In short, CUSTOM MADE by FENN-FEINSTEIN. You will find that they embody the quality and distinction that have always been associated with our name. / Orders placed NOW WILL NOT Be Subject to WPS Clothing Restrictions Effective may 30^th.

Yale Daily News for the week of
April 13, 1942

Francis Donahue Leaves 'News' Job; Drafted After 18 Years With OCD. Started as Errand Boy, Rose to Important Post In Business Department. "The News said farewell over the weekend to a man who has spent 18 of his 32 years working for the Oldest College Daily [recently, as business manager]. When Francis Donahue boards the train in the New Haven station tomorrow morning to go to Hartford for induction into the Army he will leave a job which he began shortly after graduating from short pants."

Navy Department Appoints [Clarence] Mendell As Civilian Aide. New Job Not Full-Time; Master of Branford to Keep Present Post. Appointed as an assistant to the Navy Department

Wellesley President Launches Broadside; Rips Female Slacks. "Girls look 'awful' in slacks. So spoke the president of Wellesley, Dr. Mildred H. McAfee, Saturday in answer to questions after a talk to the Massachusetts School of Masters Club. Miss McAfee stated that the daughters of plutocrats who are in girls' colleges today look just as awful in slacks as do girls who have no other clothes. . . . 'As far as I'm concerned,' said one Yale man, 'Katherine Hepburn is the only woman who can wear them. The rest resemble the view you get when you ride a horse backwards.'"

Shall Freedom Reign? [Editorial]. "Yesterday the magazine section of the New York Times carried an article by President Seymour--an article well worth the careful reading of every undergraduate who has ever pondered the conflict between freedom of speech and national security in time of war. . . 'Valid criticism of government is of chief service at a time when the errors of government may precipitate disaster. But it is precisely in time of emergency and danger that the government must be in a position to act with authority and confidence.' This is the dilemma which coupled with the danger of supplying information to the enemy leads President Seymour to his conclusion. 'Much will depend upon the active organs of opinion, the press and the radio, which by their sense of responsibility and by their own freely exercised self-control can prove that they are serving and not weakening the general interest of the community. But in the last instance the preservation of the principle of free speech will depend upon the determination of the individual citizen that he will grant to his neighbor the free right to say his mind about anything and anybody. Such a mass attitude alone will make it possible for the officers of the law and the courts reasonably to determine in each case whether, as Justice Holmes expressed the problem, "the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress have a right to prevent."'"

Wolfers Traces Nazi-Jap Relations. Pierson College Master Stresses German Threat. "Dr. Arnold Wolfers, Master of Pierson College and professor of International Relations declared . . . that the Russian front would be the most important scene of action for the United Nations this year. He emphasized particularly that the Caucasus-Suez line must be kept intact at all costs if we are to win the war."

Laun Appointed Class Day Head by 1942 Council. Seacrest Will Direct '42 Triennial Reunion; Nine Selected For Posts.

Louis Laun, Chairman of Class Day Committee; William G. White, Class Historian; John T. Pigott, Class Orator; John Paulker, Class Poet; Edwin Corning, Ivy Orator; Joe R. Seacrest, Chairman, Triennial Reunion Committee; committee members: Theodore S. Turner, Frederick A. Godley, Hovey Seymour.

War Hazards Force Astronomy Students To Dismantle 'Scope. "A New Haven hilltop being no place for a valuable telescope to be exposed in time of war, the Astronomy Department recently devoted itself to a removal job" of a 31-inch mirror. "Henry Stommel, 1942S, who had charge of the dismantling by a group of students, said that the $50,000 mirror, weighing a quarter of a ton, was so delicately surfaced that the slightest scratch might ruin it."

Yale Chess Artists Outlast Connecticut To Gain Win, 4-1. Hillary Waugh, 1942, was first winner.

Seniors Asked to Make Cap, Gown Reservations. "All seniors are asked to give close attention to the information they will receive this week regarding caps and gowns to be worn at Commencement. It is imperative the reservations be made immediately."

La Guardia to Speak at Luncheon in Honor of Robert M. Danford. Officer Who Made Yale War-Conscious in 1918 Appointed to Patrol Corps Command for Duration. " Fiorello La Guardia, who received an honorary degree from Yale in 1940, will give the principal address at the luncheon for one of Yale's outstanding military figures, one who received an honorary M.A. himself from Yale in 1917.

[Advt.] Navy Educational Program. Mathematics and Science. Four "articles" appearing in successive issues of the News as "part of a national campaign to emphasize qualifications needed for specific ratings in the Navy." Five ratings described in each advertisement. Sample: "BOATSWAIN'S MATES. Duties: After Navy Training and Extended Service. Do all kinds of canvas work, and all kinds of hoisting with block and tackle. Know the rules of the road, distress, and other urgent signals. Be familiar with all light and buoyage signals. Be able to handle either power or sail boats and know how to make landings through surf. Understand the compass and how to lay out a course. Be able to make all necessary knots and splices with either rope or wire. Be able to overhaul and handle anchor chain and know the regulations for such overhaul and for mooring ships. Be able to steer a ship and to know the effects of rudder and currents on steering. Understand salvage operations and the basic principles of damage control. EDUCATION: Desired as a Preliminary to Enlistment and Navy Training. Complete arithmetic, application of the principles of the right triangle, elements of physics as applied to Pulleys, Force and Motion, Pressure of liquids, and Magnetism. Physical geography in reference to weather and tides. Elements of Trigonometry, Algebra, Plane Geometry. RELATED CIVIL JOBS: Rigger Foreman, Sailor, Hoist Operator.

Complete Lack of Stage Censorship Surprises Comedienne Zazu Pitts. Screen Star Describes New Yorkers as Sophisticated But Says that Small Towns Demand Hays Office. Pitts touring in road company of musical Meet The People. "I am surprised that while the motion picture industry has taken the trouble to censor themselves by setting up the Hays office, the legitimate theatre has absolutely no governing board." Small towns "are important in the movies, and usually particularly conservative about their morals, and movies must conform to their standards."

Disk Production Cut as Shellac Shortage Grows Acute in U.S. Production to be cut 70%. India is practically the only source of shellac; use subject to shipping hazards, military needs.

Annual Swimmers Banquet. Held at Chi Psi house. Trophies awarded to Howard Johnson, Richard C. Kelly. Nathan D. McClure acted as toastmaster.

Baxter, Turner Win Bridge Prize. 'News' to Award Winners Engraved Beer Steins. First place: Victor Baxter, 1943E, and Robert Turner, 1942S. Second: Paul Tracy, 1942, and Oswald Backus, 1942.

Four Colleges Produce Plays. Pierson to do Iolanthe (Gilbert & Sullivan); Jonathan Edwards, The Gondoliers (G&S); Calhoun, All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare); Silliman, She Didn't Say No ,by Claude Douthit, 1942, with Carter Palmer, 1942, as director and Frank B. Young, 1942, as music composer and supervisor.

Glamorous Smith Sheds Salty Tears As Onion Picking Occupies Idle Hours. Educators Join in Condemning Drinking and Smoking as Students Foresee Puritan Life Until War's End. " . . .if you want to see your favorite debutante, you will have to go to milling machine 23 in shed E, provided she has carried out Mrs. Roosevelt's suggestion that all debutantes get a factory job for the duration. . . . On the University of Maryland's campus President H. C. Byrd has banned the selling of cigarettes, calling them 'worse than liquor.'"

Yale-in-China Officer, Robert Smith, Writes of Escape From Japs. "Japanese bombers in battle with a British convoy, the long trek over the Burma Road, and the disappointment of missing the homebound ship from Hongkong highlighted the adventures of Robert Ashton Smith, Executive Secretary of Yale-in-China, in his book about his escape from the Orient last November."

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Yale Daily News for the week of
April 20, 1942

"Train Time" Cast Numbers 40 As Leggett Fantasy Nears Debut.

Army Intent to Grant Deferments Seen in New Air Force Recruiting Program. Students, Under Plan Announced Today, To Be Placed on Inactive Duty in College, Summoned for Training After Graduation. "It is expected that the Army's coming enlisted reserve plan will do two things: 1) allow college men to complete undergraduate education (unless called because of the exigencies of future situations, or because of scholastic failure), and: 2) assure students, after graduation, first consideration for admission to Officers Candidate Schools. With a completed college education Yale graduates entering the Army are expected to have the necessary qualifications for admittance to Officer Candidate School."

State Changes Rules for Driver's License. "No one between 16 and 18 will be allowed to take a driver's test until 30 days after registering his intention to do so, stated Connecticut Motor Vehicles Commissioner McCarthy Saturday, in releasing a new departmental regulation. During the interim an investigation of the applicant's eligibility will be made."

Ambulance Corps To Hold Meeting For Volunteers. "Seeking volunteer ambulance drivers to serve in Libya, the American Field Service will hold an organization meeting in the Dwight Hall Lounge tonight at 7:30. . . . The unit, now being formed in many parts of the country, is the fourth one to be sent by the AFS. . . . The sailing date naturally cannot be revealed, but the new unit will probably leave in late May or early June. . . . Although volunteers receive no pay, they will be provided with transportation from the point of embarkation to destination, food and quarters while overseas, and return transportation. Enlistment is for a minimum period of one year and while serving, members of the AFS will be subject to the regulations and discipline of the British Army. . . . The qualifications for volunteers state that applicants must be experienced drivers. Particularly needed are skilled mechanics as well as men to drive trucks and motorcycles."

W. L. Phelps to Address Class in American Lit. "All undergraduates are invited to attend a lecture by William Lyon Phelps, '87, at Professor Williams' American Literature Class in 201 William L. Harkness Hall at 10:10 today. Professor Phelps will discuss the new book of poems by Robert Frost, other Frost poems, works of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and will read aloud poems by Vachel Lindsay."

Seymour Establishes Yale Council for Supervision of War Programs. Charles R. Walker, 1916, from the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C., to be secretary of the group, which is comprised of President Seymour, Provost Edgar S. Furniss, Yale Secretary Carl Lohmann, and Laurence G. Tighe, Assistant Treasurer. "An author of many books and articles dealing with a wide range of economic, sociological and educational subjects, [Walker] will have charge of University relations with the public through the press, magazines, radio and motion pictures."

City Will Have Day Raid Test. First Alarm Tomorrow Will Aim at Realism. "All must be ready to take shelter during New Haven's first daylight air raid test tomorrow. Warning sirens will sound first at 9:30 and the raid will last for about 20 minutes."

Seward to Study 'Normandie' Salvage. "Invited by the Secretary of the Navy to join a special committee formed 'to study and make recommendations with respect to the salvaging of the Normandie,' H. L. Seward, Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Yale University, travels to New York today for the group's first meeting. Discussing the recent fires which have swept through the Normandie, Professor Seward stated that the consensus of opinion tends to blame 'utter carelessness which has served the enemy with equal effectiveness as sabotage.'"

[Advt. From the Co-op] When You're Going Places / Nothing gives you more inner satisfaction and outward style than a pair of / WHITE BUCKSKIN SHOES / You Can Get Them With Red Soles While They Last.

'Show Must Go On Even In Air Raids' OCD Tells Theatres. "'The show must go on,' is the cry, in war-time as in peace-time. The Office of Civilian Defense has advised the theatres of the nation that in case of an air raid all shows must continue in order to keep the audience calm. In the event of a direct bomb hit on the theatre, the OCD left it to the discretion of the theatre's chief warden 'to determine immediately whether the audience should remain in the theatre or remain seated.' If the show is stopped, records should be played over the talking of the audience, recommended the Office."

Coming Distractions, column by David S. Moffitt. ". . . It seems a lot of changes have been going on behind our backs. In the first place, the Lincoln has had a change of face, spiritually if not physically. Gone is the old Reefer Madness spirit, and in its place there is a policy of nothing but the best revivals. Next week, for example, Mr. Du Barry is running Wuthering Heights, Intermezzo, and The Great Dictator. Personally this makes us awfully happy because not only were we getting a little sick of having to sit through very disappointing pictures but now we can get to see those movies we just didn't get a chance to see a few years ago. . . There's something new downtown too. The Bijou has started vaudeville shows on Tuesdays, and from the looks of the lines outside the doors they are making quite a hit. All of the big theaters now have defense workers' shows that start at ten in the morning. They usually come on the opening day of each picture and the day after. This shouldn't be an incentive to cut any classes, but when the hot summer mornings roll around it'll give us a good way to escape the heat."

Physics Staff Decimated by War as 8 Out of 15 Work For Defense. Retired Professors Uhler, Zeleny Return to Teach; Four New Instructors Temporarily Appointed This Year.

[From De Pinna advt. For Spring Sale] "Sweaters Cashmere - formerly $15 reduced to $10.45."

Juniors Gather in Branford Court This Afternoon For Annual Tap Day. Six Senior Societies Will Choose 90 New Members, Probably Accepting Usual Standards of Prominence.

Spanish, German, French Instruction To Be Broadcast on WOCD Sundays.

Toothless, Fingerless Now Eligible For Draft. "Neither false or poor teeth, glasses, the loss of three fingers, nor flat feet will now disqualify men of draft age from induction, according to the new Army rulings. Visual acuity must not be less than 20-200 in each eye."

[Cast members listed in advertisement for Dramat's Train Time] "Meet Your Friends on the Dramat Laugh Liner"Sandy Ellis, Tank Nichols, Louis Laun, David Boffey, Walt Curley, John Morrison, Jim Whitmore, Al Hilton, Bill Bromberg, Sam Wagstaff, Dud Bahlman, Jack Moment, Pete Brown, Bill Moore, Bob Sweet, Nick Christy, Dick Richardson, Johnny Mallon, Ed Cuniffe, Alec Barnum, Bill Hiscock, Ed Towne, Don Ginsburg, Ed Cook, Lloyd Taft, Jack Brittain, Jim Hewes, Johnny Green, Kenny Carey, Louis Hollister, Mark Lund, Sonny Fownes, Bill Macdonald, Werner Schmidt, Bill Sturges, Doug Allen, D. L. Houseman, L. R. Shaver.

Elis Leave Classes, Rush to Cover, In Elm City's First Day Raid Test. Gas, Power, Water Mains Reported Cut By Bombs, While Incendiaries Burn President Seymour's House. "..."Fi-Buck and Jerry weathered out the raid in their usual haunt, Yale Station, although the former managed to make a trip down town to his clothing emporium with an armful of suits during the raid. He reported the raid 'very successful.' Rosey declined to comment, saying he was too worried about Tap Day."

Dean [Norman S.] Buck Among First to Register as 500 of Faculty Sign Up For Draft.

The new draft "affects all men between the ages of 45 and 64." Dean DeVane, still under 45, registered last term with the undergraduates.

Train Time Triumphs. Leggett Makes Auspicious Debut. "A capacity audience at the Dramat last night decided soon after the curtain was up on Train Time that the wit and whimsey of Yaleman, News-man, Dramastar John Ward Leggett was at least as funny as any of the traditional great comedies produced this season--if not even funnier. As directed by Burt Shevelove, the long-heralded, highly touted, eagerly awaited 'Fantasy for Yalemen' turned out to be fresh, furiously diverting, and hilarious."

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Yale Daily News for the week of
April 27, 1942

Secretary Stimson Heads Alumni Holding Army Posts of Major Responsibility and Importance in War Effort. Yale Graduates Found in Nearly Every Phase of U. S. Military Setup.

[Edward A.] Tennenbaum, [Frank P.] Sanford, [Elmore A.] Willets Receive Heber Dickerman Prize in Economics. Essays on National Socialism, Farm Tenancy, Trusts, Given Separate $35 Awards i