Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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. . . others read . . . and still others seek stimulating private conversations. Some students assemble for vigorous round-table discussions . . . Betsy Powley was crowned Homecoming Queen at the Harvest Moon Ball. The weekend ended with the removal of the Colby goal-posts by an un- challenged bunch of Maine rooters and the con- fiagration of the Goode Sloope Hero in the Quad- rangle, causing the arrival of the Waterville Fire Brigade and a large number of school dignitaries and students. Fernando Valenti's recital in the Chapel con- vinced us that harpsichord music wasn't so horrible after all. Lambda Chi and the Phi Delts were placed on social suspension after allowing their party guests to dance on the Sabbath. The R.O.T.C. held their second annual military ball, and the freshmen were dealt a crippling blow in the form of an edict from the administration saying that no freshman could hold a position of responsibility in any campus organization unless he had a note from Mother. The Reading Period debate was postponed for another year, and Watervilleis Dr. Pratt lectured on Wfhe Nature of the Earn as part oi the Life Science Colloquium.

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establishments of a more or less diversi- Hed nature. Parentis Weekend was just a howling success. The weather was fine, and the Dutton-Lake Jolly Boys had a good romp with Norwich that Saturday afternoon and won the game. The girls were not to be left behindf-fequal rights for women, and all that, you know. Doubtless spurred on by Ashley '4The Superiority oi W'ornen Montagu, their side-kick in the eternal scheme of the sexes, they formed the L'Powder-pull Football Teamf' playing, so The Echo said, for the benefit of polio. Late in October, two celebrities arrived on the Colby campus, first, lrving Dilliard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, to receive an LLD and the Lovejoy medal from Dr. Bixler, and, second, Louie, a Sicilian donkey posing as a mule, to receive the doubtful distinction of becoming Colby's mascot. Powder and Wig's first production of the year was Green Grow the Lilacs, a well-handled performance of a rather un- inspired play. The American Savoyards presented two Gilbert and Sullivan oper- ettas in an Opera House that never looked so clean. The most fascinating news story of October came when we learned that Eric C. Porter had given, among other books, a copy of The History of the l reshylerian Church in New Zealarull to the library. Homecoming came, with its unfortunate football game and noisy fraternity parties. 1 ,lohn Rawson Elder U880- J, 1Presby- terian Bookrooni, l940P, CN. BX-9l66-N4-5l'lfl-. Miller Library. Colby College. Miss Stevenson - where did you get that hat'

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Shawls Don Juan in Hell and Lindsay's The Congo inaugurated Mr. .lellison's Actor's Lab, an experimental acting group which later produced Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners during Religious Emphasis Week in February. Radio Colby had a sudden burst of activity in November, and that's the last We ever heard of them. An interest- ing little group known as the Freshman Ten also had its picture in Tlze Echo, but, as all good Freshman groups should be, they were seen and not heard. The Glee Club and the Orchestra got together in a program of Brucknerls E Minor Greene and some not-so-Uhoredn upperclassmen sipped liberal lea. Willter Scene