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    Yale’s Poor Little Lambs Who Have Lost Their Way Find a Ewe

    The Whiffenpoofs, an all-male a cappella singing group, admits a woman; the gentleman songsters call themselves ‘lower-voiced,’ not ‘all-male’

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    More than a century of tradition changed at Yale University on Tuesday.

    The Whiffenpoofs, the senior a cappella group, admitted its first female singer. Sofia Campoamor was picked to be one of the 14 new members of the Whiffs’ Class of 2019.

    “I’m really excited,” said Ms. Campoamor, a 20-year-old junior from Washington, D.C. “To me the overall...