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A Review of the Year 1953-1954 () Yalf ' s 7500 students (including 1000 veterans), returning to school in September called for a large-scale readjustment. Changes had been wrouglit over the summer months, and there were new faces, new buildings, and new policies on the Yale scene. Whether the intangibles had been tampered witli remained to be seen; but it was a safe bet that Yale, like the Mississippi, would keep riglit on rolling along. To begin with, the college guard system, so long a campus fixture, had been virtualK ' ahoiislu ' d. This economy move met with con- siderable criticism in the early fall, but grad- ually the Yale communib,- seemed to realize that there really uasn ' t much to guartl, or to guard against, after all. The eighty-year tradi- tion of Tap Day had been abolished, as had been the two-year experiment of the Ford Scholars. The summer months hail seen Yale figure frtniuently in the nation ' s press. The oceano- graphic expedition in which five Yale scientists had participated, returning after a three month, 2000 mile fishing expedition off the coast of South America, interested scholars and sportsmen alike. In the process of gather- ing data concerning undersea life, the scien- tists had fought aiu! killed a giant manta, taken the temperatme of a 792 pound black marlin while the big game fish still thrashed in the sea, and captured a fish so primiti e that it had yet to master the fine art of breath- ing under water. The Universit)- had awarded seven honorary degrees, among them a Doctor of Letters to James Thurber, creator of a whole gallery of real but incredible people and a world of almost human animals, for his sense of the incongruous. This award to a champion of the wisely absent mind and the secret life seemed strangely comforting at a graduation ceronion ' in which 174 seniors received, along —continued un page 8 Jl

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THE YALE BANNER, VOLUME CXIII Contents 1953-1954, A REVIEW OF THE YEAR HONORS, COLLEGES, Berkeley Branford Calhoun Davenport Jonathan Edwards Pierson Saybrook Silliman Timothy Dwight Trumbull 42 47 52 57 62 67 72 77 82 87 6 17 41 FRESHMEN, A YALE ANTHOLOGY, FRATERNITIES, SPORTS, ACTIVITIES, 93 113 129 149 193 The Yale Banner Publications, of 165 Elm Street, New Haven, Conn., also pub- lishes the Freshman Register, The Yale Telephone Directory, Tlie Freshman Mag- azine, The Parents Magazine, The Eli Book, and Going Places. The Yale Banner has been published since 1841. Hi ,a

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r. ' TB ' mgnii The Manana III, one of the boats of Yale ' s ocvanographic expedition off the South Amer- ican coast gathering undersea data. Burt Peck, 1954, stands inspection at Otis Air Force base on Cape Cod, one of the more pleasant R.O.T.C. encampments. Other units went to Mitchell AFB on Long Island and the base at Rome, N.Y. While Air Force camp was only four weeks long, the Army demanded six weeks of its men at the artillery school at Fort Sill, and the Navy required a long cruise for its N. R.O.T.C. juniors. With cold war ten- sions, half the graduating class was in some sort of reserve unit. Berkeley outing on College weekend at Deer Lake Camp. This is typical of the college outings which took place in May. Marshall Waddell, 1954, was one of the mem- bers of the expedition to the Near East con- ducted by Yale students during the summer.