"Fifteen close friends of mine gladly sent $100 apiece to the Cheshire fund. . . None felt he was violating any rule, or he wouldn't have done it. Some were Yale men, some were not--They simply gave with no questions asked. I made no secret of the fact since I was conscious of no wrong. . .

'Then Came the Bombshell'

Both boys went to Cheshire, he reported, and did well enough so that he began to be hopeful they would both make Yale, Then, in February came the bombshell!"

"The boys made application to Cornell, Harvard, and Columbia in addition to Yale since they wanted an Eastern education, and had no possible assurance they could make Yale. An enthusiastic Harvard alumnus took them to Cambridge to interview Bill Bender, the Dean of Admissions. Ralph's application for a scholarship to Harvard was sent home to his mother to fill out."

She decided that his scholarship to Cheshire was awarded by the Yale Alumni Association. "Naturally, this statement had a profound affect in Harvard and Yale pedagogical circles. Here was the crimson truth that Yale was admittedly subsidizing boys at prep school for eventual matriculation at Yale. . ."

Violation of Spirit?

After Ralph Tite confirmed his mother's understanding, Harvard "then made a formal protest to Arthur Howe (director of admissions at Yale), asking him to review the case for both Ralph Tite and Terry McGovern as violations of the Ivy League Presidents' Agreement. Mr. Howe conscientiously investigated the case.

"Mr. Howe, who acted creditably throughout, attempted to get a statement from the headmaster of Cheshire that would clear the boys specifically on any violation of the sprit of the Presidents' Agreement, but he decided against giving the required statement to Howe on the grounds that what he did with his scholarship funds was strictly his own business. . . At this point Terry was accepted by Yale. . . but the Scholarship Committee refused Terry a scholarship on the grounds that there were a limited number of scholarships. . ."

Terry accepted, Anderson points out, knowing that there was a question of his athletic eligibility, but feeling he was innocent of any wrong doing. "He felt sure that any fair court of appeal would give him a clean bill of health. . .

Suffered Enough

"By this time, the Yale authorities were completely on his side and Richard Carroll, Yale faculty representative, prepared to stand behind him in the Ivy eligibility meeting. Terry enrolled at Yale and was playing on the Yale freshman team when Carroll announced the Ivy Eligibility Committee had formally declared him ineligible since alumni subsidization must be discouraged at all costs.

"My closing statement is that Terry has suffered enough for the alleged wrongs of others. May he be eligible for the next three years."

So ends the story of Robert G. Anderson.

The Relevant Section of the Ivy Code

"No student entering after September 1, 1953 shall be eligible whose secondary school education was subsidized or whose post-college education is promised by an institution or a group of individuals not closely related to the family at a consideration for his attending the particular institution." This section was recently reprinted by alumni magazines of the Ivy Group schools.