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concerned Iiulonesia after W ' wrld War II, but ga e no inkling of who had assassinated Jnngle Jim Kennedy, or why. A two-hour variety show marked tlie delmt of WYBC-T ' , the only student-owned and operated tele ision outlet in the United States. The cost of the show: twenty-five dollars. Louis M. Rabinowitz, New York City indus- trialist and philanthropist, made two impor- tant and generous gifts to Yale: a collection of Renaissance paintings to the Yale Art Gal- lery, and a collection of si.xteenth-century rare Hebrew books to the Yale Library. In as thrilling a game as any of the specta- tors at Palmer Stadium had ever witnessed, Yale defeated Princeton, 26-24. On the short end of a 17-0 score at half-time, the Elis rallied to overtake and triumph over the Tigers in a last-minute spurt. With visions of the Big Three title dancing merrily in their heads, the eleven met Harvard the following week in the Yale Bo ' l before 65,000 fans. The Cantabs won, 13-0, throwing the Big Three into a tie. Thome Shugart was named Captain of the 1955 football team. President A. Whitne - Griswold ' s annual report to the alumni struck at the lack of preparation of college students. Griswold at- tributed the situation to teacher and material shortages and saw in it an educational crisis. Unless we mend our rotten pilings, he said, there is acute danger of a cultural setback. An old tradition got a new lease on life as Delaney Kiputh, son of famous Yale swimming coach Bob Kiputh, was appointed to take over the job of athletic director. Four Yale students were among thirt -two named as Rhodes —continued VYBC swallowed up Trunibull-TV and began to produce shows every Tuesday night, mak- ing it the first student owned and operated TV station in the countrj ' . Feature production of the Yale Shakespeare Festival was The Merry Wives of Windsor, which appeared on TV ' . 13

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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

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Scholars, and P. Cameron DeVore was the recipient nf the two-year Clare College Schol- arship. Dick Steadman and Roger Hansen were elected Secretar - and Treasurer, respec- tivel -, of the Class of 1955. After 59 years, Yale reaped the benefits of a $2.50.000 bequest, made by Richard Ely in a u ill made in 1894. A gift of .S2,7.5(),0(){) from the Commonwealth Foundation made possible the beginning of construction on a dormitory- for the Yale Medical School. In a new handbook, The Teaching of For- eign Languages in the Elementary School, Dr. Theodore Andersson, Yale language ex- pert, stated that between the ages of four and six, children can learn to speak several lan- guages, mixing them at will, without slowing their grasp of the mother tongue. The New York Cit - newspaper strike left Yale, as well as New York, in a limbo of noninformation and misinformation. Leaping into the breach, the Yale Daily News rushed ten thousand copies of the OCD into the news-starved me- With the coming of snow, the inevitable oc- curred, a snowball riot. The policeman (above) has just been hit by a missile sent from Durfee, and the townie (below, left) is re- covering from a ball in the mouth received when she stepped too near to the action. The results were arrests, social probation for the whole school, and a flock of broken windows. The dim iew of the affair taken by the Deans office did not seem to be shared by the school as a whole, and the News heartib- condemned the social jirobation action. 14