To any interested Woolsey researchers: I found this interesting anecdote concerning Theodore Dwight Woolsey, President of Yale College. !ON-LINE: Yale Daily News. 1995. Shahenna Ahmad, A&L Reporter. Superstitions persist throughout Yale campus. "A statue of Theodore Dwight Woolsey sits in the middle of Old Campus, its left foot worn smooth and shiny by the countless Yale students who have rubbed it in hope of boosting their GSAs. In the midst of Yale's serious academia, superstition is alive and well. Every year upperclasspeople in Saybrook and Branford warn newly arrived freshmen against stepping on the millstones embedded in the courtyards. Stepping on the millstones, which were delivered to Yale by oxen in the 1920's, is said to jinx a student's chances of graduating. The superstition that rubbing Woolsey's foot before a test brings good luck is one of many perpetuated by students year after year. ... 'I've rubbed Woolsey's foot several times,' said Tauss, 'There wasn't any noticeable improvement in my grades, but then I've stepped on the millstone many times, so maybe they cancel out or something.' Most,! like the Woolsey superstition, are academic in nature, but a few involve the supernatural. The fact that the New Haven Green was once a graveyard and 5,000 bodies remain buried there has fostered rumors of ghosts and hauntings." (more in article) Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker