Monkey Business at Yale

There is something very mysterious about the chimpanzee project Yale university has been sponsoring since 1925. The professors at the university have always been ready to admit the existence of a chimpanzee colony at New Haven, but they have never completely explained its purpose. Neither has there been an authoritative report on the number of chimpanzees in the colony. Estimates have run from forty to fourteen hundred, but the higher figure is probably the result of a natural confusion of the chimpanzees and the new freshman class.

However, the real reason for the chimpanzee colony, whatever its number, seems to have been revealed in a report recently made by some Yale professors before the American Psychological association in New York. The professors proudly disclosed that the Yale chimpanzees had shown their ability to react to signals as rapidly as children and had been able to reach a goal despite obstacles placed in their way.

This may signify nothing to the average layman, but it must have a very sinister sound to the eastern football coaches whose teams are on Yale's schedule. What purpose could there be in teaching forty for fourteen hundred), chimpanzees to respond quickly to singles and to dodge objects in reaching a goal if not to build a football team? Quake property, the eastern coaches rear to meet the Yale chimpanzees on the gridiron. Their boys would have no chance at all against a team who see players could leap mine fact in the air on a line "buck or Jerk down a runner with a single hairy paw. Chicago Daily Tribune.