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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.

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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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Tninibnll N ghl ,?i- It was claimed that this change would permit tougher exams, w itli the provisions that they could be retaken later if failed, and that students receiving a grade of superior would be ex- empted from final exams in their courses. Yale continued to hold its own in the scramble for post-graduate fellowships as seniors Howard Needier and Philip Rittcrbush won Rhodes Scholarships, Previously, Donald Crothers and Jonathan Barnett had been awarded Clare Col- lege fellowships. The excellence of Yale ' s Drama School was recognized in the appointment to represent the United States at the Brussels World Fair. It was announced that their production would be J. B., a new verse play by Archibald MacLeish, to be premiered at the LInixersity Theatre in April. Exams were soon upon us, and the libraries were filled for the first time in the school year. For those who found time to flick in the lag between exams, the Lincoln offered the incredible Brigitte Bardot in AiiJ GoJ CiealeJ Woiinvi ( total running time, nine weeks ) . Horrt)r and sex proved a winning combination as the Para- mount drew great crowds with The Monolith AUnistti- and Lon-shuw of the Amazon. For the most part exam time was a pretty steady grind and everyone welcomed the free weekend at the end of the period. The following Monday we headed into a new term. Freshmen were con- fronted with the decision of whether or not to heel; seniors began to realize that the last of their bright college years was rapidly slipping away. IV ill pupiil.tnly. The attention of many undergraduates turned to science in the early days of the term as a group of distinguished educators and scientists assem- bled at the Yale Law Sciiool to discuss Amer- ica ' s Human Resources to Meet the Scientific Challenge. After a day and a half of discussions and assemblies, the conference adjourned on a note of serious concern while the Netcs expressed the editorial liope that this concern would take the form of positive actittn. Of great interest to the Yale community was the announcement of retirement after 2 5 years as University Chaplain of the Reverend Sidney Lovett. Lfncle Sid had never turned away a laddie with a problem and had made life more endurable for many with his good-natured humor. Seniors dedicated their classbook to retiring Sterling Professor of History Ralph Gabriel, and undergraduates paid him the tribute of turning out by the hundreds for his