The Study Break

           The Study Break

          We found an invitation to the Study Break one day. So in the evening after supper we all went there. As we entered , we found it looked like a restaurant with tables and chairs, a bar in the corner. All of us were asked to sign in the list. After that we went upstairs to have a look around the place. On the second floor, our attention was drawn to the great number of huge silvery cups exhibited on the shelf. What are they? Do they symbolize the prizes Yale has won ? Are they just cups for drinking ?

Cups on exhibition

Beautiful singers!

        At this time, beautiful sounds of singing came .  We made our way   downstairs. Almost all the people were standing in a semi-circle, four of them, two boys and two girls , singing in four quartets. I believe they were singing Italian songs. The harmony of the voices, the beauty of the singing girls , the youth and passion conveyed put us in a different  mood. We all clapped our hands when one song ended. Then we got to know what the cups were meant for. It turned out that it is a Yale tradition to drink with such big cups in turn and the last one will have to rotate the cups three times over his head. This is the so-called game of Rotating Cups.

As the cups went from one to another in the room, the four people went on singing. As this goes on from generation to generation in Yale, it has become a part of Yale culture .