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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

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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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tropolis for distribution at Times Sfiiiart- and the Yalt C:iul). Cliristinas ac ' ation caine and went, and hardly seemed as if it Iiad come at all. Return- ing students were saddened by news of the deatli, on Christmas e e, of Dr. Ralph Linton, Sterling Professor of AnthropologN ' . .-Vnother death, that of Dr. Leo F. Rettger, shocked the camjius. Dr. Rettger, noted bacteriologist, committed suiciile; meanwhile, in Hartford, thirt -five miles away, the Connecticut Poul- tryman . ssociation, unaware of his death, was citing liim for his work in poultry disease. The Glee Club announced a European tour planned for the summer, scheduling twent ' appearances; and the Timothy D wight Skate Club flooded the T.D. courtyard to build a veritable winter wonderland. Noted evangelist Br%an Creen came to Yale to give a series of sermons, sponsored by the University Chris- tian Mission; Elsy Morgan led the Eli basket- ball team to a 60-58 win over Dartmouth; and the March of Dimes gave Yale a $150,000 grant for polio research. W. 11. . ndcn was awartleil the 195.3 Boiling- en Pri .c- in Poetry, and Harry Shulman was appointed Dean of the Yale Law School. The strike against the Taft Hotel went on . . . and on . . . and on; and scab was scrawled across the Taft ' s front in large, black letters. The Political Science department announced a large-scale reorganization, dropping the de- partmental divisions. After many years of toying with the idea, the presidents of eight eastern universities banded together to create a formal Ivy Group. Following a poll of the student body, the Athletic Association voted to move undergrad- uates back to the shady side of the Bowl. Plans for the Franklin Project were revealed, receiving nation-wide attention, and the pub- lication of several of President Griswold ' s es- says was announced. A somewhat weird note was struck by Dr. Joseph Ashbrook of the Yale Observatory, who announced his calculation of the length —continued David Baillie, 1954, became in- volved with t vo townies and a sugar shaker in the United Res- taurant on Prom weekend. The unfortunate Baillie suffered a blow to his dignit} ' as he walked about campus with a broken nose. 1 i .... J 1 15