Music, Skiing, and Ping Pong Prove Yardling Favorites in Hobby Survey

400 Yardlings have signed up for no less than 78 different activities ranging all the way from napkin ring collecting to numismatics a survey of the Union hobby sheets now reveals.

The present sheets are the result of a September athletic meeting in which all Freshmen were requested to give their particular extra-curricular activities plus many names which have been added recently. Two thirds of the skiers have signed up only in the last few days.

Music Leads

Music, whose 43 adherents prefer it in various stages from "swing" to "symphony," leads al the other hobbies by a considerable margin. Photography with 15 runs fourth. Skiing and ping pong with 22 and 18 carry off second and third places, respectively, while chess and radio tie for fifth position, with 18 followers each.

Three Yardlings signed up for magic, two for pigeon raising, three for palmistry, one for polemies, one for genealogy, one for the study of humor, and three for numismatics, the science of coin collecting. Ceramics or the study of pottery, with two enthusiasts, is one of the latest subjects to appear on the sheets in the Union.

400 Signed

When the 329 who answered the Phillips Brooks House inquiry as to proposed life work are compared with the 400 who have signed up as "desiring to meet classmates with similar hobbies" it appears that the Freshmen are more sure of their avocations than they are of their future vocations.

While one half of the Yardlings who answered the life work question found themselves in the business, medicine, or law categories, only one fifth of those who replied to the hobby question were in the three largest divisions, music, ping pong, and skiing.