Several other categories of employment are open, the biggest of which is Dining Halls. At any rate, students on scholarship are assured before entering Yale they will be given employment. Almost all of these students are expected to support themselves in order to supplement their awards.

The third major step in Eli admissions revitalization was the establishment in 1944 of the Committee on Enrollments and Scholarships. This was the key move. It established the all-important liaison between the Administration and alumni.

Members of this Committee are also on the Committee of Admissions; Noyes Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, also belongs to the Committee on Enrollment. A system of checks and balances is thereby set up, and the possibility of the whole program's getting out of hand is reduced to a minimum.

Alumni Coordinator

Walker's chief function as Chairman of the Committee of Enrollments is to coordinate alumni activities. Some 90 alumni committees are now operating under Yale University's scrutiny. These committees perform the ground-work of the entire admissions program. Operating in their own local areas they work in this way: they first seek out students of high promise, then interest them in Yale, interview them, encourage them to apply, and follow up on them even after they have been accepted, to make certain they will go to Yale.

These groups also submit reports on the students, which, according to Walker, are "a great help when 50 percent of your applicants also want scholarships."

In addition to the 90-odd active groups, some 100 to 120 individual representatives do "selling and recruiting" work for the admissions office. A total of almost 500 alumni are on the job.

It is chiefly due to their efforts, Walker said, that the West Coast has in recent years shown a great increase in the number of top-flight men it sends to Yale. Cities like Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver, have become strong "Yale towns," just as Minneapolis, Dayton, Cleveland, and Birmingham are strong "Harvard towns." "Even Boston," Walker added, "is sending more and more men here."

Expanding Scholarships

The Committee on Enrollment has been expanding its scholarship program so that it may bring to Yale "all the people it wants..." The University, faced with increased calls for financial aid, decided soon after the war to drastically boost appropriations to the scholarship program. Presently, $1,032,241 has been accumulated for award purposes.

Faced with nationwide competition that grew keener after the war, Yale, like Harvard, countered by stepping up its program. Harvard, although it did not begin its intensification until 1949, quickly set up administration-alumni liaison, remanned Schools and Scholarships Committees, sent men out from University Hall on field trips, and issued handbooks explaining the set-up to alumni. Yale also issued a handbook for alumni, including criteria for admissions, and information on financial aid and expenses. Noyes' office expects to revise the book shortly, in order to bring alumni up to date on the program.

Like Harvard, Yale has made a movie. It's quite a bit shorter than "Invitation to Harvard," running only 20 minutes, and it attempts to cover only a part of the college program, but Walker reports it has been an effective device.

The ever-expanding program may bring another record-breaking crop of applications to Noyes' office this Spring, as it may to Dean Bender's office. It means a great deal of work on the part of both alumni and administration--but it seems to be paying off