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Yale Men Prefer Phi Beta Kappa Key to Major "Y"--Pick Harvard as Favored College--Read Saturday Evening Post

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New Haven, Conn., March 3--Yale Seniors, according to the list of preferences in the annual class vote announced today in the Yale Daily News, prefer a Phi Beta Kappa key to a major "Y" earned in sports, incline towards Harvard as their favorite college next to Yale, and in answer to the question, "What man, now living do you admire most?" cast a tie vote for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and "my father." They believe English to be the most valuable subject and psychology the least valuable.

Seniors of the Sheffield Scientific School, according to the same announcement, voted to a tie in selecting President-elect Herbert Hoover and Colonel Lindbergh as their favorite world figure, prefer a major "Y" to Sigma Xi, and hold Princeton as their favorite college next to Yale. Their list of favorites in various fields includes d'Artagnan in fiction; Napoleon in history; "The Three Musketeers" among novels; Dumas among prose authors; "If" among poems; and Tennyson among poets. The class favors the Republican Party over the Democratic Party by a vote of 89 to 26.

Extracts from the votes are as follows:

Yale College

Honor most to be desired: Phi Beta Kappa, 94; Major "Y" 33; Chairman of Yale News, and Football Captain, 12; Skull and Bones, 11; Senior Society, 10; University Crew, 5.

Hardest year: Freshman, 137; Sophomore, 64; Senior, 15; Junior, 10.

Pleasantest year: Senior, 173; Junior, 35; Sophomore, 11; Freshman, 6.

Favorite college next to Yale: Harvard, 94; Princeton, 61; Dartmouth, and Williams, 14.

What man, now living, do you admire the most? Lindbergh, and "my father," 25; Andrew W. Melion, 20; Herbert Hoover, 19; Bernard Shaw, 18; Thomas A. Edison, 16; Mussolini, 13; Alfred E. Smith, 9; Henry Ford, 5; Einstein, and "Myself," 4, Richard E. Byrd, and Dwight W. Morrow, 3.

Sheffield Scientific School

Hardest year: Sophomore, 84; Freshman, 24; Junior, 19; Senior, 11.

Pleasantest year: Senior, 120; Junior, 11; Freshman, 5; Sophomore, 2.

Favorite college next to Yale: Princeton, 54; Harvard, 22; Dartmouth, 14.

Favorite character in fiction: d'Artagnan, 19; Tom Jones, 16; Falstaff, 11.

Favorite character in history: Napoleon, 29; Lincoln, 14; Roosevelt, 11; Cleopatra, Lee, and Bismarck, 6; Hannibal, 4.

Favorite novel: "The Three Musketeers," 14; "The Forsyte Saga," 9; "Tom Jones," 8.

Favorite movie actor: Jannings, 21; Fairbanks, 15; Bancroft, 12; John Barrymore, 10.

Favorite movie actresses: Joan Crawford, 34; Greta Garbo, 23; Nancy Carroll, 11.

Favorite actor: Hampden, 38; John Barrymore, 12; Rogers, 11.

Favorite actress: Helen, Hayes, 28; Jane Cowl, 20; Ina Claire, and Katherine Cornell, 9.

Favorite magazine: Saturday Evening Post, 29; Time, 21; Cosmopolitan, 12.

Favorite smoke: Lucky Strike, 45; Camels, 25; Chesterfield, 13.

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