Flickering light was shed on the problem of the meat shortage's effect on American students last night with the arrival of a dispatch from Yale, a university in New Haven, Conn.
According to Dining Hall Director A. Margaret Bowers, quoted in the dispatch, Yale men have taken to a new and particularly troublesome kind of table-hopping. After reading in advance menus posted in the ten colleges, the Hall of Graduate Studies, and even the Divinity School, students wan and emaciated from meagre rations of sundry things on toast are able to augment their diets by guest appearances at eating places other than their own. By downing three dinners in as many halls, they absorb the equivalent of a normal, pre-meat-shortage meal.
Miss Bowers, quoted in The Yale Daily News, which, though not founded until 1878, purports to be "The Oldest College Daily," denied that the university has resorted to black market operations.
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