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election ti) a third term as mayor by a record plurality of 2 3,000 votes. The BANNER ' S last- minute entry, Lester P. Sludge, gathered a num- ber of write-in votes on the strength of his brilliant performance in the Bladderball Game, but the outcome of the election was never in doubt. The re-election of Associate Professor Blitzer of the Political Science Department to his alderman ' s post assured Yale of a voice in cit) government. Hundreds of alumni converged upon New Haven the following weekend to attend the annual convocation of the Alumni Board and to take part in the William Howard Taft Centennial. Mr. Chief Justice Earl X arren came up from Wash ' ngton to address the group. President Griswold took an active part in these and other meetings throughout the fall, attended banquets, received awards, argued for a revitali- zation of secondary education in the United States, and published a new book. In the Uni- versity Tradition. In the course of the fall, Yale undergraduates had the opportunity to hear a number of distin- guished visitors, among them theologian Rein- hold Niebuhr, anthropologist Margaret Mead, real-estate wizard William Zeckendorf, Cypriote Archbishop Makarios III, and ex-governor Kohler of Wisconsin. For those in search of good theatre the Dramat offered their outstanding production of Arthur Miller ' s The Crucible, while the Shu- bert had such successes as The Dark at the Top of the Stain and Time Remembered . For the music lovers the Woolsey Hall concert series brought to New Haven the Boston Symphony, Arthur Rubenstein, and Isaac Stern. Princeton and Harwird weekends were wel- J3(jjji«p ' W Nn iiii i; cimlJ it f ihtm .iir.ry. corned with enthusiasm by most of us. We antici- pated both the weekend festivities and some good football and were disappointed on neither count. In Palmer Stadium the Yale team played its best game of the season, and Tiger fans found them- selves staring at a sea of handkerchiefs as the final gun sounded. Back at the Bowl on the following Saturday the Elis wrote a new chapter in the colorful history of The Game. This smash- ing conclusion to the 19 ' 57 season proved the real ability of this year ' s team beyond question; at best, Princeton ' s Ivy League Championship was a hollow one. It was the Winterbauer to Cavallon pass combination that sparked the Yale Ttie Elh wen „ff m .,nuil-,r fM.t ..(« f,.n-.,« H .♦ iw

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T t- V morcN in IruNtratinn attcmpti-J to break in Al- btrtus Magnus tmc ni lit. but were apprehended by alert New Haven piilitemen S«tnie o( the more ingenious student promuters tantalized us with numerous signs and advertisements pro- claiming that She Is Coming. Slie turned out to be a beautiful date for Har ard weekend, to be won, along with expense mtmej- and various prizes, by correitly prciliiting the stores of a number of football games. Hie Administration detided that the resulting publicity would not be particularly favorable to the I ' niversity, and the promoters reluctantly abandoned their scheme. Despite an inability to scmrc vaccine for the undergraduates, L ' nivcTsity health othcials did an admirable )ob of coping vMth Asian flu. Ray Tompkins House was set up as an auxiliary in- firmar)- and a special program whereby students could receive medical treatment in their riKims was efTuiently organized. Though the student body as a vvhole wc-athered the epidemic well, the Yale c» mmunity was sluKked and saddc-ned by the tragic death of Rolf Yerger, 196(i, from flu lompl Rations. In the middle of the month came the an- nouncement of a $ViV,0()(l increase in the cost of construction of Ingalls HcKkcy Rink and a postponement of the expected date of comple- tion. After some dc-bate over abandoning alto- gether the daring Saarinen plans for the rink, officials dcxidc j to go ahead with construction. Elsewhere on the architectural scene, the Drama Sch K)l considered plans for a neu theater of revolutionary design, and a controversy develo|x-il over plans for the new women ' s dormitor) ' . The most widespread architectural s|xxulation, how ever, revolved around plans for the elevc-nii residential college. A scries of columns and .1 sjxxial architecture supplement in the tu stirred student interest in the matter. On the f(x tball field the Yale team managed to remain a strong contender for the second Iv-y League Championship through October, despite a loss to Brown and the controversial tic with Dartmouth; but the first Saturd.iy in November brought disaster in Philadelphia Grim and rcs ' lute. Yale readied for Princeton, In New Haven p.ilitics Dick Lcc- was winning

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(•fTciisc tliruu liout Jhc season, alon ; wiih Cokcr and Embcrsits. Civjllon was sc-Uxtcxl for llic all- Ivy team, while Winttrbaucr had to settle for scxond team btxause o( an abundance of good Ivy League quarterbacks. After a few days away during Thanksgiving vacation, we rclurncil to the brief jxtukI of ilassc-s remaining before CJirisimas, many of us con- frontc-d by a sta;iy;erin accumulation of work. The work pattern often was broken, however, by some diversions. Fratenity pled in culminated in a wave of plcxl emaster kidnappinpi. and the Stui called, in a cjuiet voice, for an c-nd to |- lcd|;in . A statement issucxi by the Director and Assistant Dirc tor of the l ' niver ity Health I e- partment to the effcxt that extc-ssive milk-drink ing mi ht lead to the formation of kidney stones. rtmindcJ us of Saybrcwk ' s celebration of National Milk Ni ht back before Thanksgiving. After students had protc-stc-d the limitation to one lass of milk at a time by oin back for seven and ei ht retills apicxe. Dining Hall Superintendent A. Margaret Bowers was forced to comment that it was the worst in history. On a more serious note, Robert Pcnn Warren brought to a close a highly successful series ol cartx-r discussion mcxtin js with his talk on cre- ative writing. Fortified by the traditional Clirist- mas dinner in the eollege-s and in Cmnmons, we headed fe)r a three week vaeation, but the spcttir of exams and the more immediate lieadlines l. term papers forced many to pack a few bo» ks We were jrc-eted u m t ur return to New Have-n by a 1-1 inch snowfall the highest in ten years. Skiers, frustrated during the holidays by tlic first grexn Christmas in years. began frenzied planning ft»r the weekend Meanwhile. the rest of us tixik time to talk over the parties we attended, the friends we saw, the miles we walked for the post ortice. The Cilcx- Club had enjoyed a sucic-ssful tour of major Fastern cities, but there was nothing but bad news in the spirts scene. Tlic baskdball team had ilroppeii four straight games on their Wc-stern trip, and the hcxrke} ' team had finishc-vi a ilisapj-Hiinting fourth in the RPI Tournament L ' p|xrclassmen received with dismay the an nouncc-ment that the faiulty had voted to hoUl ilepartmental exams in 19 immediately after spring vacation instead of at the end of the term 5 M «r ' i w.