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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

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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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of the Martian day; and by the Yale Medical School, which was given a tissue 1 ophilizer, an intricate apparatus designed to prepare human arteries, bones, and skin for indefinite storage. Plans for greater cooperation, and joint building activity, were announced by the Yale Medical School and the Grace-New Haven Hospital. At the ver) ' site of the notorious Ice Cream Riot, another student outburst occurred; once again it involved white, cold material— but this time it was snow. An estimated 1500 Yale, Hillhouse, and Wilbur Cross students barred two downtown blocks to traffic; a policeman suffered a slight injury; a truck driver went to the hospital with nervous prostration after a snowball broke a window in his vehicle; and a Wilbur Cross sophomore had her face washed with snow liy a Yale student during the height of the fray— with the result of one lost tooth. The blame for the spontaneous Elm Street Uprising was laid on pre-e.xam steam. The result of the riot was an unex- pectedly harsh punishment: a three-week so- cial probation on the University. The ten students who were arrested got off with light fines, but the deans read the riot act to the student body, promising penalties up to and including dismissal, in the event of future demonstrations. The Yale Shakespeare Festival centered around plays, exhibits, and lectures, and was featured by a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor over nation-wide television. The play, which was presented on Omnibus, was spoken in what Professor Helge Kokeritz, after intensive study, claimed to be the original Shakespearean pronunciation. A heated con- troversy over allocations ( Should freshmen be allowed to apply for the college of their choice? ) involved the student body (which ' oted overwhelmingly for the present sys- tem ) and the masters ( ' ho split almost evenly on the issue). Yale ' s oldest became her newest, as Con- necticut Hall, home of Nathan Hale and other notables in the Yale past, was rebuilt and re- stored. Wally Kilrea scored three goals as the Eli hockey team tied the Harvard sextet in a thriller, 3-3. One of the more amusing epi- sodes in many years was the case of the Eco- nomics instructor, who— as an illustration of practical stock market operations— invested his own and his students ' money in a Canadian oil company. At last report, the instructor was selling his stock— at a loss. Pictured here is the Economics instructor who gave his class a demonstration in applied stock market theory. 16 -JL