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Elis Expound Varied Theories in Diagnosis of Harvard Ailments--Many Blame Rum, Red Tape

More Irish And Less Arabians Would Help Says One Son of Eli

Hiram Ringham Jr. Yale '26: "There is not enough democratic spirit at Harvard. The players on the football team don't seem to enjoy playing the game, it's too much of a grind. Besides, you take everything too perilously, and there is no spirit left for backing the team."

W.E.H. Boardman, Yale '27: "The red tape in the H.A.A. office gripes me beyond words.

"Except for Yale, Harvard is easily one of America's finest institutions whatever Princeton says."

Allison Choate, Yale '26: "You are thrown out against too many people in the delusion that you will thereby meet most of them. That is the source of the indifference."

J.D.S. Coleman, Yale '27: "Three things are needed at Harvard. Harvard needs a subway under the Charles River to Harvard Square, a new gym, and a football team."

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R.P. Crenshaw, Yale '25: "There are too many graduate schools and not enough college. Also too many bootleggers, the first thing that assaulted me in Cambridge was a purveyor of hooch."

F.R. Crow, Yale '26: "I don't think a page is enough to list all that's the matter with Harvard."

Richard Dane, Yale '27: "Cambridge is a fine place, and I am losing my faith in Yale. I went down to New Haven to see the Army game, and my car was stolen. I went again to see the Yale-Princeton game, and my coat and hat were taken. I'm beginning to think Harvard's all right."

E.L. Davenport, Yale '27: "Harvard has no football team this year, but it is superior to Yale in the quality of rum, which is never procurable at New Haven."

J.B. Davin, Yale '26: "The only thing that is wrong if a belief that nothing is wrong."

W.B. Derby, Yale '27: "There isn't any beet. Also, the University is too spread out both physically and bureaucratically, which takes away from the college spirit and the ability to find one's way around."

J.K. Dougherty, Yale '27: "Harvard is too far from New Haven."

Charles Driggs 2nd, Yale '27: "The degree to which Harvard is over-organized and tied up in red tape is amusing beyond words, to say the least. The Bursar's office, for example, at Yale, is operated by two men and no more than three stenographers, but the size of the same office in Lehman Hall would make it seem as though the Bursar and his army of assistants at Harvard were running the United States. As for red tape, a fellow can hardly get across the street without showing his Bursar's card."

H.R. Giblin, Yale '27: "Harvard's all right, and I almost wish I had come here instead of Yale. The trouble here is that ticket applications must be turned in personally with the money; while at Yale, applications are mailed in when it is convenient."

V.E. Greenman Jr., Yale '26: "Some college men drink a lot some of the time, and some a little all the time, but I have never before seen a college where most of the men drink all the time, and study with a glass of whiskey at the desk."

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