Colleges: New Haven, Here We Come

Officials of women's colleges sometimes shy away from the fact that most girls like to be near boys. How much they like it was proved on the thoroughly boola-boola reception that Vassar students gave the news that their all-girl institution along the Hudson in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., might some day move to New Haven and affiliate with mostly male Yale.

When the word first leaked out, Vassar students romped up the stairs to clang the bell atop Main Hall, a gaiety normally permitted only once a year, on the day when juniors turn into...

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