Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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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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The Christmas Sing proved to be a scenic as well as a musical success. Stratton Hall retired the cup by making this their third consecutive win while the famous Hoof and Mouth Club took the men ' s award and Dick Kelley was given a Christmas goose by the officers of the Senior Class. The Winter Carnival, the first attempted at Tufts, was frustrated by the failure of King Winter to put in an appearance. Since the winter of ' 48 was referred to as The Year of the Big Snow, we feel justified with question¬ able originality, in designating this one as The Year of the Little Snow. In fact, one professor was heard to remark that possibly a new record had been set in that as far as he knew, not a single Jackson girl claimed absence from class on the grounds of her inability to navigate from Stratton to Ballou due to inclement weather. The first Yacht Club dance preceded the 1949 gold rush via the hectic Pyramid Clubs. Then, spring . . . The Weekly and the Tuftonian have been published throughout the year accord¬ ing to schedule and both have drawn many favorable comments from the students. Nevertheless, since perfection is seldom at¬ tained, and is not perceived by all even when it is, there have been a few adverse criticisms as well.