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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

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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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final lectures in tiic American Thought and Civ- ilization course diat lie initiated in 1931. Impressive wins over Princeton and Dart- mouth by the basketball and luvkey teams stx-meil to mark a turning |»int in the fortunes of both. Brown proved a double villain, however, crush- mj; us in basketball and hockey on successive nights, and both teams had to settle for second place in the Ivy League. With a lopsided victory- over Navy, the swimming team was running its streak of successive wins past 160, The scjuash team was smashing its way through all opjxisi- tion, aven in last year ' s bitter K ss to Nav overwhelming a strong Princeton team, and K ' in Harvard to finish the season undefeated. The incoming bt ard of the Seu i showed promise o( ori mality with a spaial supplement on stxondar) ' education and a critical examination of the ixrsonnel and practices of the Political Science Department. The latter, based on a stu- dent |xill. cundudexl that a clian e is needed if the Department is to attract substantial student interest. Those who predicted a hard winter back in the early fall were vindicated by the reat bliz- zard. When snim stopjxd falling. New Haven had aicumulated a total of 1 inches. Mayor Lex- brought all business district tratlic to a halt with his state of emer jency order. Tlierc was even a rumor that Monday classes would be Rjlfit Gjtritl. ttlirtmrwl .. 9% I ' mtlt SiJ Jtpjfli. cancelled. Life went on as usual the next day. however, with the exce|Mion that snowlx unil dates ap|xrarcd in classc-s and a few tcaihers thought the lon trip in from Hanuien or Bran- ford was definitely beyond the call of iluly. ' alies nude their way back slowly from Wcllcsley anvl Vassar and more slowly from the Virginia irN schools. Hie weeks before spring; vacation were irowdc-d with events and s|xakers. anil most of us dcxided to Id all that reading slide for a while. Junior Prom came in l c-l ruar) ' , tin the last day of the month, and hundreds of couples were entertainetl by the music of Ralph Marteric and an assortment of Yale roujis. Taking their theme from Mane ll s To His Coy Mistress, the Prom Committee nmtrasted the courtly ele- gance of WiK)lsey Hall with the simple sen- suality of Commons. A wc-ek later the frc-shmen brought Lc-s El art to Woolsey Hall for another outstanding P rty. The Dramat contributed to the entertainment on both weekends with their sec- ond major production, Thornton Wilder ' s The Skill oj Our Teeth. The leiturcs of theologian Paul Tillich, ivcn under the auspices of the Council of the Yale f hristian Community, dominated the Yale scene ilie two wcxks prcxcdin sprin j vacation. The enthusiasm with which he was received was another si n of a rowin inlcllci tu.i ' ■■■■■ ' • II