Word: ely
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...address to the New Haven Advertising Club last week, Hall said that television has very definitely cut into the gate receipts at New Haven. Although he did not indicate whether or not Yale would continue to allow its home games to be televised, he did point out that the Eli athletic budget would have to be curtailed to combat the dwindling gate receipts...
Bates, Navy, and Colgate-all of whom have met Yale before-replace Connecticut, Fordham, and Holy Cross on the Eli schedule...
Yale's wheels earn more than the awe of their fellows; there are three kinds of institutions on the Eli campus that honor their achievements with coveted memberships. Where Harvard has only Phi Beta Kappa, Yale also boasts of nine fraternities, two honor societies, and six fabled secret societies...
Considering the uselessness of joining Eli fraternities, so far as dining, rooming, or eating goes, it seems strange that one out of every five students is a member and 31 percent of the others wish they were. No one believes they encourage "fraternity" between members; they are used sparingly on weekdays for beers, and heavily on week-ends for dances and jazz blowouts. But these affairs are usually open to everyone in the college, and even out of the college. Perhaps their popularity stems from this: they honor the universal goals of conviviality and extra-curricular success, and therefore...
Since most Elis have the same values and seek the same goals, they are far less individualistic than their Harvard companions. Some Harvard students haven't seen a class all term; others burn midnight oil. But almost all Yalies hit the middle road. The same comparison holds in politics; there are no "Communist-front" clubs in New Haven. The ideal of all Eli students is a single mythical "Yale Man," the target of almost everyone's aspirations. The Yale Man must be a success and he must be all-round: athletes are not admired unless they are good in other...