Residential College Rivalries

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>That’s a great article about Tang. I’m glad it still happens, and that lots of colleges field teams, but a little sad that it needs to be associated with DKE. I’m sure “Tang” was a play on “Tyng”, but the part about it being founded by SM and TD sounds like it may be based solely on SM/TD folklore.</p>

<p>Our Saybrook team’s t-shirt was worth saving. It was designed in 1975 by a guy in the class of 1977 who was a really talented graphic artist. It was a play on the famous Da Vinci drawing of a man with his arms and legs in various positions, inscribed in a circle and square: it showed a full beer glass upright and rotating in various positions through about 120 degrees until it was empty, with the arc and an alignment square visible. And, of course, “BROOK TANG”.</p>

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<p>Doesn’t everyone hate Morse because its the best college? That’s what all the Yale students tell me.</p>

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<p>They must have been kidding haha</p>

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<p>Apparently, according to the other thread, the only quote unquote bad thing about Morse is the lack of gothic architecture… kind of like almost every other college in the United States. </p>

<p>Anyway, I heard Morse and Stiles have a rivalry (remember: we’re the pretty one, they’re unsymmetrical!) and that Morse hangs big lights on Durfee around Christmas time that say MORSE as a reminder of its awesomeness.</p>

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<p>^a lot of colleges hang lights around christmas time. minus maybe the colleges in vandy. at least not my year. the fun comes when you try to mess up another colleges lights. je usually puts je sux, while stiles will put something suggestive after it (stiles people are in lawrence which is directly to the right of farnum). so it’ll say something like “je sux (something I shouldn’t type here)”</p>

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<p>ES '11 made a rather good looking drawing out of christmas lights to complement the “JE SUX” displayed to the left. </p>

<p>Too bad their dean made them take it down…</p>

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<p>Yeah, the Tang Cup was organized drinking teams and most colleges had them. Stiles certainly did and one of my freshman year roomies was on it. They had regular practices which involved large amounts of beer drinking. It was a pretty exciting competition. Though vomiting was sometimes involved.</p>

<p>There has never been a real Stiles / Morse rivalry. Don’t know why. Mostly harmless pranks like putting a moose’s rear end in their dining hall to complete the A. Bartlett Giamatti Memorial Moose that hangs in Stiles.</p>