Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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is 'L+ . ', Shepherd, and Ronan . . . Debate Council, Outing Club, and the Phi Bete room . . . Spring comes but once a year . . . our prelude to spring is mud . . . the mud that's little publicized but much in evidence . . . the mud we curse and have to live with . . . Merrill Place . . . finishing touches on a swish and much-needed GI Village re- placement . . . a college grateful to a generous benefactor . . . missed breakfast. . . Wonder if there're any glazed doughnuts left? . . . Valentine gets us sooner or later . . . no cutting in line l?l . . . deserts on four . . . Rob- ert Frost, if not an edifice, certainly one of Amherst's best-loved living monuments . . .

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upstairs reading-room experiment- the creaking, not-very-well-lighted reading-room . . . the rigorous and much-needed change of policy con- cerning library infractions . . . Am- herst's contribution to the neo-Gothic: Walker Hall . . . the Hockey Rink, the newest part of our impressive physi- cal plant, just another of the many steps which have been taken in the right direction, even though phys ed does come at 12:20 . . . support or apathy reigns supreme . . . the amaz- ing Tufts game . . . Keiter and the Aqua Show and faculty iousts . . . Am- herst, and Knight, handle Holy Cross . . . intense intramural contests on Memorial Field . . . Pratt . . . hub of student activities . . . home of Clark,

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the Octagon and music at Amherst . . . this year, To the Fairest College . . . every year, the Singing College . . . sounds emanating from College Hall every Thursday night, prepatory to a trip to Bermuda . . . a marching band watching the football team's zip, but needing, equally as much, zippy uni- forms . . . the lnterfraternity Sing, fea- turing coats and ties and Dekes . . . the ubiquitous Zumbyes, the fun- loving DQ's, the Glee Club in tails, the omnipresent Chapel Choir in robes . . . the Lud's vigorous hands over Dean Porter's head every morn- ing at 9 . . . interminable and inevi- table Chapel . . . perhaps it is coarse and constant usage . . . but then we'd miss Prof. Greene's historical talks and the dogs, who like Chapel next best . . . the architect has succeeded acZnzt1'ably,' not only in securing the scientzfc objects, but also in retaining to a degree almost defy- ing criticism, the fnest archfiteetural pro- P07'f'i0?'1S.,, Pres. Edward Hitchcock to Valentine . . . and what would we have to mock if it weren't for Chapel? and how could we have the secular service and Chapel Dash? and how would we ever know how late we were going to be for classes? . . . nearly necessary . . . the hymn today is number 14 in the New Hymnal . . . the boys asleep in the back rows . . . Make Dean's List this semester? . . . yeah, l'm on the list to see the Dean . . . headquarters for the campus cops . . . no more the familiar, unique, and