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Yale ' s new Art Gallery which was dedicated in November of 1954. It houses classrooms and offices, a galler ' , and the new Graphic Arts department. Archi- tects were Louis Kahn, of Phil- adelphia and Douglas Orr, of New Haven. The building boasts some of the most modern design to date at Yale and in New Ha- ven. with their diplomas, commissions in the armed services. Senator Robert A. Taft had died; Professor Wendell C. Bennett, Chairman of the Depart- ment of Anthropology, had suffered a heart seizure while swimming and had drowned. The alumni had donated a record-breaking $1,021,832 to an eternally soliciting University; and seven undergraduates had made a lengthy tour of the Near East, studying Egypt and the Arab-Israel problem. The Peabody Museum ' s famous mural, The Age of the Reptiles, had appeared in Life, and there was an acute housing shortage to be dealt with in Ne ' Haven. The Physics Department had a new linear accelerator; the new addition to the Art Gal- — continued on page 10 The newest addition for the Yale-New Haven Medical Center is to be the Edward S. Uarkness Memorial Hall, a residential unit of the School of Medicine. Construc- tion is slated to be completed by September, 1955.

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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.

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firr: ' .I ' : ' ' !. • PERSONALITIES Dr. Douglas Knight, assistant professor of English wlio was named President of Law- rence College, replacing Harvard ' s new pres- ident. Coach Jordan ()li ar, who k ' ll the loothall team to a good season although howing to Dartmouth and Har ard. Richard C Lee, head of the Yale News Bu- reau, who was the suceessfid Democratic can- tlidate for the New Ihu ' en maxor ' s office. I W