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However, one should not inter from this that the average student indulges in no activities except those directly related to his academic studies. The fraternities, with their large memberships, provide their usual entertainments while many other organized clubs and societies have shown a similar re¬ birth of activity. The Mayoralty Campaign aroused campus-wide enthusiasm and with the firing of miniature cannons and the wail¬ ing of sirens even the near-impenetrable tranquillity of the Classics Department in upper Ballou was disturbed. During the year, Tufts more than held its own in athletic competition. A highlight of the Jumbo football season was the ap¬ pearance of a baby elephant at the Home¬ coming Day game with the University of Massachusetts. This young pachyderm was imported at great expense by the ' 49 Jumbo Boole. The basketball season opened with the televised defeat by Holy Cross before a capacity crowd at Cousens Gym. Coach Ding Dusseault provided the comic relief at this game when he nearly lost his trousers while stretching the Holy Cross net at Buster Sheary ' s request. Features of the successful season were two hair-raising wins over Boston College and Boston University. In the latter game Captain Spud Shapiro wrote a spectacular finish to his collegiate hoop career by scoring his 800th varsity point to put Tufts ahead with six seconds remaining. The track team steam-rollered its way to its usual undefeated season. The only real treat came during the thrill-packed meet with Brown University which the Tobey brothers threatened to win singlehanded. Senior Ted Vogel, national marathon cham¬ pion and Tufts ' Olympic representative, was awarded the Roy Phillips Memorial Trophy as the outstanding athlete at the B. A. A. games. Coach Larry Palmer ' s swimmers made by far the biggest splash of their three-year history by climaxing a rugged season with consecutive victories over Massachusetts, Trinity, M.I.T., and Connecticut. Most valu¬ able swimmer Ed Singer set new pool rec¬ ords in the fifty and hundred yard dashes, and the entire squad has been accorded varsity status beginning next season. For those less skillful but no less enthusi¬ astic the intramural and intrafraternity sports programs offered an opportunity for hundreds of athletically inclined students to participate in football, basketball, swim¬ ming, wrestling, track, and softball. ■
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This year finds Tufts College still in the transition period between war and peace. Many of the students are veterans who, after their military service, realized the value of a college education. Outside of the maturity evidenced in these however, there are few remaining visible signs of the war that ended four years ago — a few G. I. clothes, occasional military slang, but little else. The veterans are gradually becoming outnumbered. Each fall more students enroll directly from their second¬ ary schools and within a few more years the aged veteran will be an oddity on the campus. But just at present there is a large number of both veterans and non-veterans, and this difference in ages naturally imakes it difficult for the student body to be as unified as it would be under normal condi¬ tions, and has often resulted in numerous controversie s over the subject of school spirit. The veterans have generally shown a disinterest for the rah-rah type of college spirit so often portrayed by Hollywood and the amount of condemnation they have re¬ ceived for this treasonous attitude makes the accusations of Axis Sally pale by com¬ parison. But all signs point to a return to the traditional pre-war campus with all its extra-curricular activities.
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