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It was a yea r of constant activ ity; it was a year of dr eamlik e sojourn in a quadrang le ho using three centuries of traditio n and not an iota of experience. It was freshman yea r, a tim e to discover what Yale was abo ut. It was suppo sed to be about education. But yo u went to an introductory lectur e given by a professor who had not talked lo an undergraduate for four teen years and was not about to start no w. He mumbl ed so superbly that you fell asleep and woke know ing it was not just education . It was sup posed to be about traditio n. You went to the President' s hou se and tried to soak up all the his- tory you cou ld find. But while Kingman look ed Yale, you and yo ur classmates definite ly did not. For weeks eve n Albert us Magnus girls asked if yo u were visiting from Lawrencev ille. Some said Yale was suppose d to be a time for ex- perimen tation. But in those da ys there was more long hair in your hometow n high schoo l orchestra, than in yo ur class. It wou ld be another yea r before the love gene ration cap tured the heart of Mother Yale. Eventua lly you stopped worry ing about what Yale was and got down to work. You stopp ed the sink on the fifth floor and flooded the entryway. You wa tched the first football loss to a Connecticut team in 90 yea rs. You bumped into John Morton Blum in Yale Station and did not und erstand why everyone in Des Moines was not stunned when you reported yo ur bru sh with ce lebrit y. Brash but soo n humbl e you tried to slip into the University life. You found yourself a corne r in the co mmunity and bega n the metamorpho sis into a Yalie -a nd the year began to roll by. Fall wa s marked immediately by the library's dis- cove ry that Christoph er Columbus was an impo ster. O n Leif Ericson Day, which happened to come ju st be- fore Columbu s Day, Librarian Jame s Tanis revealed a map which proved the Santa Maria had arrived in the New World a few years too late. There are a grea t many Americans of Italian de scen t and the y were non e of them ove rwhelmed by Yale's map . The di- rector of one Italian historical socie ty spoke for his co untrym en: "Anyone can make a map, " he said. " How do yo u know these guys (at Yale) know what they are talking abo ut ? I've never heard of any of them. " And a member of the Knights of Columbu s turn ed to ad homin em : "Up at Yale," he said, "t hey' re too radical and too drunk and I know." You, the fres hman, were beginning to discove r that he might be righ t. Yale was rathe r radica l and from time to time rath er drunk. But up at Yale even these qualities were prese nt always in moderation. Mor e than 2000 Yalies did sign a full-pag e ad in the Times prot esting the Vietnam Wa r. And another SO refou nd - ed an SOS chapter. But, on the other hand , another 1,0(X) stud ents rallied to protes t civil disobed ience as a form of wa r protes t. Vietnam rema ined a muddled issue for many month s. Staughton Lynd we nt to Hanoi, returned, had passpo rt pr?blems, did a grea t dea l of spea king, but co uld convince on ly some that he was right. The uni- ve rsity had alumni problem s, the studen ts did a great dea l of listening , a few hundred mar ched for peace in Was hin gton, one fasted in Pierson. But still it was not until the end of the yea r that in yo ur class the major ity final ly decided we had no business in Vietnam. Fresh man year offered less serio us lessons as well. For instance, yo u learned that everyo ne at Yale had to be ph otogra ph ed in the nud e. Then yo u learne d that everyo ne importan t in the wo rld had been ph oto- graphe d in the nude because they were all, apparently Yalies . In New York, at any rate , it was clea r that only Yalies were allowed to be elec ted Mayo r. And if New Have n's Dick Lee, also runnin g again, was not a gradu- ate, he had at least worked for the Univer sity. You learned too that nud e or clot hed it was diffi- cult to ge t a date . Perhap s yo u turn ed to Opera tion Match and had a compu ter fix you up . One freshman was given the nam es of ten boys . "I may be de sperate but this is ridiculous," he said. Eventually you and he passed out of desperation, through the ridiculous , and into what at Yale passed for the sublime. The managin g editor of the News de - feated the female mana ging edit or of the Crimson in jacks: it was silly but was rea lly sublim e eno ugh to be coo l. You caug ht on to this coo l quickly. If yo u didn 't have a date to see the Ronn ettes at the Prom , yo u went to New York, maybe to look for a ce rtain hot el clock und er which some girls we re supp osed to be. Or if yo u had nothing to do one spr ing day yo u were sharp enough to casua lly lounge on you r wind ows ill long enough for the cameras to immorta lize yo u in "To Be A Man. " As you acqu ired the trappin gs of Yaleness, the is- sues that wo uld dominate yo ur four years began to co me into focus. In the spring coe du cation was we ll- discussed, thoug h not a single freshman could know yet that he was in the last Yale class neve r to go to school wit h wome n. Distribution als were abo lished - though many freshmen did not rea lize they wo uld spend their sen ior year still trying to esca pe Astra or Forestry or Latin. Nine up perclassmen won permiss ion to move into New Have n slum s. No one rea lized then that the same slums wo uld be the scene of riot in little mo re than a yea r. And in May there was the draft defe rmen t test-the test woul d even tually mean not hing but the dr aft wo uld in the end mea n some- what more. But these issues were in the futu re. Freshman year they and yo u only had tim e to find a foot hold in the Yale co mmunit y. And by sprin g, when yo u had sec ured you r place, yo u had realized what Yale was about. It was about practicall y every thing. And the whol e pan op ly- the ridiculous and the sublim e, the simple and the difficult , the ambig uous and the straight- forward-a ll the element s were in yo ur grasp and yo u had become a real Yale man. Then the trees blos- so med, bands appeared on th e cross camp us, you pa ssed your fina ls, and you went home. You ret urned to becom e a sop homore, which is a wo rd derived from the Gree k mea ning both wise and foolish. There were to be many foo lish thin gs done by yo u that year but the wises t was taking Margare t Mead's co urse. Miss Mead attrac ted the largest and , judging by the grades, the hard est worki ng class of any teacher in the college. Fortun ate it was, too , that her views on schola stic endeavor coi ncided with yo urs: no reading , no not etak ing, and fair grading.