"There were hundreds and hundreds of parties in the Houses and in the dorms," Sigal said.

Myles also remembered festive student gatherings after The Game.

"There were dances and we had big bands there, one after another," he said. "We just made a great night of it."

At The Game, of course, the object was to beat the Bulldogs. This involved taunts shouted across thee field from both sides. The rivalry has not faded for alumni. Sigal said it has "pretty much been a constant over the years. I can't really say it's changed."

Lindquist expressed a different view, nothing the importance of context. In the '40s, he said, "There was a much greater interest in rivalry," although he said he sees the rivalry in a milder from among students today. The importance of the rivalry, alumni said, is linked to the strength of The Game as a tradition.

"Yale was an incredibly hard fought game, but it was clean," said Thomas G. Aubin '88 a former football player. "There was respect for the people one the Yale sidelines," he said.

Aubin remembers the 1987 game well. Harvard was up 14-10, put Yale was driving down the field, going for the winning touchdown. The quarter back pitched the ball to the running back. There was a tackle, then a fumble, Harvard recovered the ball and was able to run out the clock. Harvard won the game and the Ivy League title.

"It was only the second or third time Harvard and Yale played where the winner was going to be the champion," said Aubin, who made the winning tackle.

With a seasonably large crowd, The Game makes memories.

"When someone would break off [on] a lone run of 30, 40 yards, the roar of the crowd was amazing. You don't hear that in other games," said Shaunessy. "The way the yelling and

But despite students' gripes about finding andusing typewriters, seasoned administrators saymembers of the computer generation don't know howlucky they are.

Many say the ease of editing and formattingtext that a computer allows has above all extendedthe amount of time students have to write papers.

According to Director of the Science CenterDear R. Gallant '72, the process of writing acollege paper was not as simple as sitting down infront of a PC at midnight and banging out amasterpiece.

He says the real work used to occur after hefinished drafting the text in longhand.

"Actually typing the paper was a bighurdle--and you had to be reasonably conscious todo it," Gallant says. "You couldn't save thatuntil 4 a.m. if you wanted it to look at allneat."