Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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more than balanced the scales of success. The Skaters, produced by Walter Orr and directed by Red Richardson, flopped in its eight-week run in spite of Dick Button's sen- sational send-off, but another producer, Eugene Wilson, predicts an improvement in seasons to come. Persistent perfectionist Paul Eckley molded a green pitching staff and a porous infield into a moderately successful team, with training rules to match, but not without the help of Ben McCabe, unpredictable weather, and some hustling sopho- mores. Lumley's men took bigger steps faster and Rostas' charges played several theenking games to compensate for Count Reid's court blues. From Johnson's ivory tower, legislation shook the rigor mortis out of tradition. Sixteen-day vacations were rele- gated to the realm of the make-believe, and law enforce- ment fell to Dean Esty as our records indicated Dean Bacon was on leave. With the burden of cut regulation as- signed to the Faculty, the Dean's List first lost and then partially regained its practical significance, through the efforts of an active Student Advisory Committee on Edu- cational Policy. Between doxologies and benedictions, President Cole continually counseled the necessity of resist- ing the prospective enrollment rush of bumper babies, and in keeping with the College's intellectual tradition it was anounced that knowledge as well as nostalgia would be pursued in the new Alumni House. f M '

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Answering to the voice of her new master, Professor Edwin B. Pettit, Mistress Kirby lifted her veil and spread her skirts three times this year, to MAN AND SUPERMAN, OTHELLO, and THE GOLDEN CUCKOO. College Hall not only played host to the eminent Messrs. Robb, Arons, and Cole, in connection with problems in American Studies, but it was the scene of several student plays, including the annual drama of freshman fraternity appointments. Offer- ing a mundane contrast to the fine series of art exhibits held within her galleries, Mead welcomed the annual Career Conference which again injected a note of practical reality into the College's incubator atmosphere. Though changing leadership as expected, the ACAA initiated an unforeseen purge of illegal drivers, while the HMC cautiously resisted all temptation to take more lib- erties with Sweet Little Friday Night. Despite the quiet roars of SPHINX and the gentlemanly efforts of Student Council, the dearth of purple beanies was rivalled only by the scarcity of neckties in Valentine Hall, which, incidentally, continued to serve a fare. The results of the tiff among the LJAC, SPHINX, Student Council, and the Lord Jeff Bookstore were somewhat obscure, the only certainty being that Council came into possession of S400 and a sizeable task. In a less complicated but more dramatic turn of events, Phi Betta Kappa officially denounced social fraternities. Soon after the honorary society's March election, however, the burning issue was quelled, much to everyone's com- plete indifference. Taking time out from its selection of new members, the Rotherwas Society succeeded in presenting a speaker or two, while LJAC, Chi Psi, and Amherst College lecturers provided eager student minds with frequent intellectual stimulation. In addition to his Rotherwas responsibilities, Professor Earl Latham accepted the post of general counsel 'for the new legal society founded and named in honor