Page 88 - YB1956b

1955 Each year, logically, th~re are a few more alumni to come back. After three years nobody knows them. Some of them have money; most of them are still in our financial oblivion. Some smoke cigars and wear Harris tweeds; most of them either have, or are, nagging wives and are bent with the batterings of some dozen, pint-size descendants about which they were warned in a long-ago course entitled inno- cently, "Family SOCiology." All of them haven't seen each other in years, and they wonder how the administration can afford to import all of "these baby-faced students," We lost the first Homecoming football game in thirty-odd years, and the principle of tradi- tion seemed, at the moment, to be forever violated. 84