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Yalies now have a chance to see just what the alma mater was like when great grand-dad was an undergrad. The Yale Banner publications have just released a book depicting 250 years of student life in New Haven.
The issue commemorates the first quarter millenium of Yale. According to the preface, the volume catches "the colorful essence of the past as it compares with the vital record of Yale today."
The authors pay homage to such old institutions as the now extinct fence which drew freshmen with a "magic magnetism," recount the ban on lower class roller skating, and call the institution the "mother of colleges."
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