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

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."

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."

Andrew Gordon, Yale '27: "The squash courts aren't open on Sunday."

W.F.C. Guest, Yale '27,: Overemphasis in studies is the main fault in my opinion. There is too serious a view of life at Harvard which detracts especially from the quality of the football team."

H.A. Haines, Yale '26: "No backs to the seats in the Stadium. Too interested in its disinterestedness."

W.E. Hoagland, Yale '26: "One thing which is disadvantageous to the College is that the University is top heavy with graduate schools. The club system and decentralization policy, which cause a lack of unity here, are all right for a certain type of man, who can depend upon his individuality to put himself across."

W.W. Hoge, Yale '27: "Metropolitan interests diversify the social aspirations of the undergraduate body, causing a phlegmatic torpor in undergraduate social life."

H.B. Hosmer, Yale '25: "Harvard is too split up. There should be a central campus and less individuality in the place."

M.H. Hovenden, Yale '26: "I repeat the words of the Boston Herald, that if the Harvard football team would only learn the fundamentals and play as a unit, it might have a chance of beating Yale."

E.H. Kieselhorst Yale '27: "There are too many red noses, blue nosos, and booked noses, and not enough ventilation in the squash courts."

J.M. Kingsley, Yale '25: "Too many derby hats."

W.W. Knight Jr., Yale '26: "Since when is a co-op a coop, and a Yard a Yad?"

W.K. Laughlin, Yale '26: Too decentralized, with a consequent lack of college spirit."

J.L. Luke, Yale '23: "Take studies too seriously, and do not take football, which is a serious subject, seriously enough."

Josiah Marvel Jr. Yale '27: "There is too much organization and not enough informality in the life at Harvard. I have also noticed that a man's club seems to mean more to him than the College, which may or may not be a good thing."

A.L. Michel, Yale '26: "I notice especially the lack of a unified spirit at Harvard, perhaps because Yale is predominantly a college, with comparatively few graduate students."

E.S. Peieris, Yale '26: "The only thing wrong is that Harvard does not appreciate Yale's superiority."

F.W. Reilly, Yale '27: "If you have a good definition of a snob, you can quote me as saying that is what a Harvard man is."

W.P. Sargent Jr., Yale '26: "Too conglomerate."

J.M.L. Smith, Yale '27: "Harvard suffers by comparison with."

W.S.K. Stage, Yale '26: "Harvard is just as wet as Princeton was a year ago, but what's the matter with having some backs on the seats in the Stadium?"

Greely Sturdivant Jr., Yale '27: "I haven't seen anything extraordinary yet."

John Verrill, Yale '27: "Too near Borston."

E.R. Wardwell Yale '27: "So big that its littleness stands out."

C.H. Willard, Yale '26: "I deplore the petty collegiate fashion of calling the Co-op the 'Coop'. The former, as at Yale, is more dignified. Moreover, do the clubs at Harvard pick the men of merit or merely the athletic stars?"

Anonymous Yale '26: "Why don't you follow the example of Yale and have more Irishmen and less Arabians?"