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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

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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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housing shortage to l)i dealt itli in New Haven. The Plnsics Department had a new linear accelerator; the new aildition to the Art Gal- lery was rising daily on the corner ol ( hai)el and York. Reuben A. Holden was the new Secretar ' of the Uni ersity, .Norman S. Buck new Assistant Provost. Four college masters had left and four new ones had taken their places; antl Clarence .MiMidel! had been called from retirement to be . etiiin Director of Athletics. The last word of the summer, however, was left to Dr. Leon F. Whitney, Yale pathologist, who confirmed in his All About Parakeets what the .American male had long believed: When you teach a female (parakeet) to talk she is no longer any good for lovemaking. Before the school year was a week old, the educational bombshell of the half-eentiuy exploded full forei ' on the Yale campus. The President ' s Committee on General Education published recommendations for a sweeping revision of the first two years of imdergraduate curricula, advocating what approached a com- plete break with tradition. Suggesting two plans, one drastic, the other transitional, the report also touched upon possible speedup for abler students, the placing of extracurricu- lar activities in their proper perspective, a pro- posed new college calendar, and in general aroused a storm of controversy. Those who called it, as did the News, a Griswold Revolu- tion seemed to overlook the fact that it was patterned in many ways after systems which had operated successfully at Oxford and at the Uni ersity of Chicago imder Robert Hutchins. Police cracked down on unauthorized parking and many automobile owners arrived on the street to find their cars being towed iiway. The two hundredth anni ersary —continued Shelby Pruett stopped on the Yale 40 during the first period of the Yale-Dartmouth fiasco, the first major setback to the team during the season. 10 II I Mk mm