The Nation: Baa, Baa, Baa

It is not a vintage year so far for Yale University. First came the revelation that Yale library's famous "Vin-land map" may be nothing more than a wondrously wrought forgery (TIME, Feb. 4). Then last week came a Connecticut Supreme Court challenge to Mory's, the all-male New Haven drinking club, which must now fight to maintain its private-club status in order to continue refusing to admit women (a policy since 1886). The "gentlemen songsters off on a spree" proclaimed in Yale's Whiffenpoof Song may be presented with the uncomfortable choice of finding a watering hole other than Mory's...

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