Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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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

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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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Some call it Christmas. Mass and a variety of instrumental works by Bach, Handel, and Bizet. Later that same week we heard the Clee Club again in a Choral Christmas program in the Chapel. The semester was over almost before New Yearas Eve hang-over, bringing with it its fiendishly-scheduled finals. The new term brought Death of a Sales- man to the Women's Union, Jubinsky and Morrisey to the Echo ollice, Barbara Brockway to the post of editor of the new literary magazine, and a basketball team that was ever gracious in defeat to the gymnasium. Winter Carnival arrived and, just so visitors wouldn't get the wrong impression of Maine Weather, the tempera- ture dropped lower than ever. As usual, high Colby spirits came to the fore and kept our minds olf the Weather. A man from Bowdoin broke Colbyis ski-jump record by one foot, and Sue Miller became Ccnlipeflc