Lighthouse park new haven8/31/2023 This piece evolved from a much simpler prompt. But how much of that tradition lives today? And - as with bladderball - how much will die tomorrow? As with the JE motto, the Yale tradition has delivered countless trivia that we constantly hear. Some students know the vestiges of decades past - the legacies of TD’s Head Robert Thompson or Wall Street’s Naples Pizza - but so many do not. This is the great divide between Old and New Yale. Truth is, I don’t think I had ever even heard of it. But the legendary antics came to an end in 1982 when bladderball was finally banned by the administration. Teams then fought to retrieve the ball by any means necessary - including fishing gaffs and actual helicopters. Apparently “JE Sux” - the Jonathan Edwards motto proudly parodied in fairy lights across Farnam Hall - comes from another staple of the Yale tradition: “bladderball.” The night ensued with laughter and story after story. The guests graduated as far back as 1973 - Yale’s first co-ed class. The club was hosting an alumni event to celebrate a Yale-Cornell hockey game. Isn’t this place supposed to be “the dear old Temple bar we love so well?” More strange, I had not been invited by friends or teammates in good spirits, but by an alumnus I had met in a steakhouse the night before The Game. It’s even been inducted into the National Register of Historic Places.Īnd yet, almost a year into undergrad, this was my first time here. Surrounded by varsity memorabilia and echoes of Whiffenpoof medleys, it’s where Yalies have their most revelrous and unforgettable nights. Mory’s Temple Bar is a private club on York Street and a staple of the Yale tradition. About a week ago, I finally arrived at Mory’s.
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