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I) ' ot Jonathan FAhvaids biitli was celebrated by lectuios and exhibits. Dr. Samuel M. Brovvnell, Pri ' sident of New Ha en State Teachers Col- lege and professor of educational adnunistra- tion at Yale, was appointed United States CoTuniissioner of Education. His brother: U.S. Attorne -General Herbert Hrownell. Mugging episodes continued at an alarming rate; the Yale Charities Drive announced a goal of $33,410; and Navy slaughtered Princeton by a score of 65-7. The Har ard Band, en route to New York Cit - for the Harvard-Columbia game, stopped in New Haven long enough to give sleeping Elis an unanticipated two-hour serenade. The time (2:30 a.m.) and the music (loud) caused considerable consternation among the local gendarmes (with the exception of one Anthon - Matteo, an ofl-dut) ' patrolman who, obviously intoxicated, protested when his fel- low policemen tried to establish order). For their troubles, the Cantab musicians were ar- raigned and fined for disturbing the peace. Annoiuicement of the projected construction —continued Two employees of the Taft Hotel during the winter long strike. The hotel allegedly used Yale students as scabs. When a strike of photoengravers suspended New York newspapers, the Yale News dis- tributed a special edition in New York ' s Grand Central Station. Part of the winter ' s news are the parties which form a major part of Yale extracurricular life. Shown here are William Coke, 1954, and date. .£m . 11

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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

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New Haven cops enjoy, as always, ticket giv- ing. Fralernifv life went on as iisiia Due to Ringside Restaurant agitation such vi ' iidois as (, ' liris C ()l()ml)() found lluMnselvcs oiclcrccl oil streets in tlie Yale area. of a new hotel gave pleasure to those who would benefit b it; and the mayoralty, ' victory of Richard C. Lee, Yale ' s director of public relations, met with widespread approval. But despair darkened the campus as a hitherto un- beaten Blue football team ent down to an ignominious 32-0 defeat at the hands of Dart- mouth, and Frankie and Jimmy (beloved street vendors) were banned from the streets by city ordinance. The new Art Gallery and Design Center, one of the most advanced-design structures on an American college campus, was dedicat- ed in impressive ceremonies. Incorporating many radically new features, the Gallery aimed at the whole man. Dr. Douglas M. Knight, assistant professor of English, was named President of Lawrence College, replac- ing Dr. Nathan Pusey, new President of Har- vard. In a unique first, Pusey was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws bv Yale. Yale and Princeton announced the topic of their annual humorous debate, Resolved: that the Kinsey Report is a compliment to the American Woman ; and a group of Princeton undergraduates were arrested, fined, and pun- ished for painting orange P ' s and Tigers on several buildings on fraternity row. For the first time in five years, all forty-eight states were represented at Y ' ale, as Peter Jackson en- tered from Nevada. The French department announced the use of a tape-recorder in ex- aminations. The University published the notes of Soci- ology Professor Ra inonil Kennedy, murdeii ' d in Indonesia in 1950. The notes gave valual)le information on the explosive problems which 12