Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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And through these portals pass issues of The Echo. The Glee Club ranks swelled to 108, and for the first time we could hear the tenors. Ecstatic Mr. Re at once launched into long-range plans for an extended glee club tour, plans which rapidly deteriorated into two performances at the East Vassal- boro Grange and a return trip to the Portland Salvation Army Hall on Congress Street. Our first football game was a loss to American International, 19 to 14. Ah, welll Hazing turned into a beautiful, sizzling fiasco. All three valiant raids by the hyperthyroid freshmen, and the sophomores let them get away with President Morrisey, and those lovely, buck-twenty- five beanies were put away after the second day. Three girls 'Gfaintedw before the burning eyes of the sophomore court and enjoyed a week

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While Valenti with harpsicorfl lured some . . . Spring warmed up into summer, hour exams lengthened into finals, and freshmen became sophomores, sophomores became juniors, juniors became seniors, and seniors be- came unemployed. The Fall term was slow in starting. lln fact, youlll find there are many who donat believe it has started yet.j For the newcomers, there was a week of standing in line, ideal for getting classmates acquainted. There were R.O.T.C. uni- forms, physicals, meal tickets, library tours, activity fairs. schedule plannings, and the arrival of a laughable group known as the upper-classmen. Classes were off with a sick- ening lurch, and our minds were rapidly loosed from the dulling influence of an intellectually lazy summer. Word leaked out early in the term that NBC LColumbia Broad- casting Systemj was filming the story of America's small colleges on the Colby campus. Immediately the mad rat- race for choice bit-parts in the film began, with the rats, on the whole, Winning. Today weare still wondering what they're planning to do with all that filmfmaybe they're going to show it some day. Dean Joseph Hudnut from Harvard fyou know-in New Havenj became a member of our faculty, teaching a history of architecture and lecturing on different aspects of his sub- ject, a good account of which may not be obtained from past there were those

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NBC camcrameu from New York captured the small college life. ol free publicity. The purpose ol hazing, alto unite the freshman classfl was nicely accomplished. Some people met their room-mates for the first time. Early in October, the ORACLE staff met and in one meet- ing came to the conclusion that the goal for this yeaifs work was the production of a yearbook. The Outing Club tripped up Katahdin before the weather got nippy, and the Senior Scholar Program began to get confusing, both for Senior Scholar and advising professor. Off-campus in- terests came in the form of three delightful motion-picture theatres, the Moulin Rouge jam sessions, the re-decorated Hotel Jeff, the ever-popular Noel7s, anfl numerous other Mrs. O'Leary's cow had nothing on thc KDR,s.