Proposal

George Van Santvoord, whimsical one time instructor and assistant professor of English at Yale, now headmaster of Hotchkiss School, last week wrote an article for the Yale News in which he purported to explain the plan of a Yale student's father for solving the week-end exodus problem current at New Haven. Wrote Mr. Van Santvoord : "For this purpose he proposes to lease the Hotel Biltmore [in Manhattan]. Students enrolling in Biltmore College will pay an annual fee of $5,000. One week-end absence will be allowed each" term for attendance at the Yale-Harvard game. . . . Each student on entering will have his name placed on the invitation-list of the most exclusive metropolitan hostesses. He will thus be assured of opportunity of meeting the season's debutantes, and he will be expected to extract from them and their parents invitations to the significant din ners, theatre-parties, dances and house-parties of the season. Students meeting these requirements will be given credit for mastery in the Science of Society. ... In ... economics . . . the texts used are the daily reports of the Stock Exchange and the Curb Market, the Wall . Street Journal and Bradstreet. ... In athletics . . . squash, tennis, golf, polo, bridge and backgammon [will be taught]. . . . But students . . . must learn to talk intimately of the characteristics of the notable players, criticize the leading coaches, and speak convincingly about . . . [other] athletics. ... At the end of the four-year course, the Bachelor of Arts degree will be deservedly awarded to each student who has successfully completed the course, providing the candidate has arranged to marry (advantageously) immediately following the award of the degree."

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