Every Little Bit Phelps

In a talk the other day to Yale undergraduates on English University life, Professor William L. Phelps '87, said: "Daily life in English colleges is remarkably different from that in Yale. While breakfast abroad is the most sociable meal of the day, usually lasting two or three hours, at Yale it is a delirium. Why, the other morning I was walking along Elm street with an elderly lady, when we observed several students rushing towards the Old Campus after breakfast. 'Look at those poor, dear boys with their tongues hanging out,' sympathized the old lady. "Those aren't tongues, those are griddle cakes,' I informed her." --Yale Alumni Weekly.