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went thri)ui;h as planned; but a complaint from the N.S.P.C.A. thwarted the etTlorts of tlie Pier- son Sty Stompers and the Trumhull Fiyadores to establish a new Pig Day. Yet in a week in which Beat Princeton was the universal byword, perhaps the most significant event had notliing to do with football or tigers, but with wars and freedom. On November 13, a dramatic rally was held at Woolsey Hall to pledge support to the students of Hungary who ■erc engaged in a heroic struggle for freedom from their Communist oppressors. After listening to the appeals of Deans DeVane and Rostow, Prii- fessor Scully, and Andre Schiffrin, campus or- ganizations and individual students contributed over $3,000 to aid the cause of freedom in Hun- gary. The newly-formed Committee for Yale Emergency Aid to Hungarian Students admin- istered the funds and was instrumental in or- ganizing similar movements in colleges and universities throughout the country. The Univer- sity announced plans to allocate scholarship funds and bursary jobs to qualified Hungarian stu- dents, and many of us participated in a program to teach English to Hungarian refugees. By these actions, we showed that the new spirit which had invaded Yale extended not only to campus activi- ties, but to world problems as well. Before we knew it, our newly-restored Thanks- giving vacation was here. Some of us headed south for New York and the Biltmore, while others traveled to Boston to witness Yale ' s vic- tory over Harvard, clinching for the Elis the first formal Ivy League championship. Jordan Olivar was named New England ' s Coach of the Year: Ouseichik charms croud at Princeton pep rally... Denny McGill and Paul Lopata were named to the all-East first team. Just to complete a win- ning season, the J V ' s finished with an unde- feated record, and the soccer team ' s victory over Harvard assured them first place in the Ivy League. At the same time in far-off Australia another Yale team won for itself the respect and admiration of people throughout the world. Our crew, defeated in the first race, staged a miracu- lous comeback in the next two encounters to win a gold medal for the Lfnited States. and student support brought spirit and victory.

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SjturJ.iy jjleniouns brought bill .1 singit ' dis.ippoi ilmeiil. ovcrsliadowed, however, by the ancient and hon- orable (?) bladderball contest, in whicli the be- bop BANNER board triumphantly maintained an undefeated record by trouncing the moguls of the Record, News, and W YBC. Fires galore marked the first week of Novem- ber. The quick work of a Chi Phi pledge avoided serious damage to York Hall; a fire in the base- ment of Wright Hall sent feathers flying and pillows burning to the tune of $5,000. Silliman College announced a contest for the wisest invest- ment of $100,000 — in theory only. Handsome Dan became a national celebrity as his picture adorned the cover of Spoils lllnstraleci . With the long-awaited approval for the UAC ' s recommen- dation to allow the use of refrigerators in college Parc,!l D.iy l„,i,ul m.nn .il ihc Boul rooms, the newspapers were filled v ith ads from appliance stores. Berkeley residents staged a meal boycott to protest the inedible food and poor dining hall policies. For those seeking something more in entertainment than Tempest in the Flesh, ( Was she a sinner ... or slave to her desires? ) the Shubert offered a brilliant produc- tion of Eugene O ' Neil ' s autobiographical drama, Long Day ' s Journey Into Night, in which Bradford Dillman, a former Dramat president, played O ' Neil ' s counterpart. If the fall season had been pointing toward one particular event, it was the Princeton game. Beat Princeton signs began to appear the Mon- day before the game and increased both in quan- tity and cleverness throughout the week. Even though Princeton was spelled wrong on some of them it didn ' t matter; for a new sense of spirit and pride in Yale had descended on the campus. A rally on the Old Campus attracted 2,000 undergraduates who heard Coach Jordan Olivar and Captain Mike Owseichik voice their confidence in a Yale victory. Finally, on Novem- ber 17, a crowd of orange-and-black-jacketed Princetonians saw their team bow 42-20, to a Yale team playing as it never had before. The week end also marked the Glee Club ' s first ap- pc.irance of the season, while the Dramat opened its season with the highly acclaimed production of Christopher Fry ' s, The Lady ' s Not jor B rn- jiii . The Yale-Princeton debate, Resolved: That a good woman would put up a better cam- paign than the losing presidential candidate

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One of iht ' lt.im. Back at Yale, we found ourselves in the home stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was a period which brought deserved recognition to several Seniors. Andre Schiffrin and Roger Donald were awarded fellowships for study at Clare College, while Rhodes scholarships went to Clark Cunningham, Roger Hansen, and Erwin Fleissner. Four English girls, also anxious to do their part in furthering Anglo-American relation- ships, advertised for correspondents at Yale. In- A questio)! of courtesy. surance Woyhl, the News ' follow-up publication to W all Street, 1955, was published and received with praise, in spite of the appearance of a simi- lar publication at the same time. Containing arti- cles written by prominent alumni, bis nance W orld was distributed to 300,000 students tiiroughout the country. With victories in the first basketball and hockey games, December was off to a promising start. Harold A. Lehrman spoke on The Crisis in the Middle East, while President Griswold, who had earlier received a degree of Doctor of Laws from Wesleyan University, noted the declining in- fluence of the liberal arts in the United States and Europe. A unique precedent was established as a Freshman attended his classes via telephone. The News, off on another crusade, ran a feature en- titled, New Haven Hotels: Worse Than Death ; but in spite of it all, the Taft and the Duncan managed to stay solvent. The Record published its annual parody issue, using the New York Daily Mirror as its model. The university re- vealed a model of its own, this one of the ultra- modern Ingalls Hockey Rink, to be constructed at the corner of Sachem and Mansfield streets. Seating up to 5,000 persons, it will be com- pleted in the winter of 1957-58. However, at that time, our thoughts were on the more imme- diate matter of Christmas vacation, and, after caroling on the cross campus and college parties, we headed home for two weeks. After a vacation of fun and or relaxation, we returned to New Haven. The Glee Club had en- joyed a successful Christmas tour; the hockey and basketball trips had been less promising. The Nev ' Haven merchants slashed their prices in their annual after-Christmas sales, attracting many students interested in scarves and ear mufifs for the below-zero weather in early January. After an unsuccessful attempt last year, the skating fans of Timothy Dwight froze over their court- yard and kept it going for three days before the elements combined against it. We became aware of the high cost of educa- tion as the administration reluctantly announced a $200 increase in tuition for next year, the third such raise since 1952. On a more promising note, the publication of Some Must W- atch. a novel by Junior Edwin Daly, brought to three the num- ber of works by Yale students to receive public recognition. Earlier in the year. Children of the Lcidyhiig. written as a part of the Scholar of the House program by Robert Thom, was published and received a public reading in New York. The Viit . '