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DECEMBER The first weekend in December was the occa- sion of the fall colloquium sponsored by Chal- lenge, which had already had a hand in sponsor- ing many of the speakers appearing at Yale. The theme of the meeting was The Challenge of the Nuclear Age, and it was highlighted With talks by Carlos P. Romulo, General James M. Gavin. Dr. James F. Crow, and Presidential aspirant Senator Hubert M. Humphrey. One thousand students from Yale and other schools all over the East attended the weekend activities, which included, in addition to the major speeches, nu- merous speeches, panels, and coffee seminars. The folk music artists, the Weavers, also performed over the weekend. Yale showed a surplus for the previous year of $24,871, and so naturally began consideration of a project to tunnel Elm Street from College to Broadway, which would only cost about three million dollars. The study is being undertaken jointly with the city, whose redevelopment proj- ects have apparently also created a troublesome surplus, and it t the studyi is not to cost more than $4,200, or between live and seven hundred books, or a policeman, depending on your point of view. Yale prosperity was further demon- strated by the decision to refuse to allow stu- dents to accept federal loans under the National Defense Education Act of 1958, and by the for- mulation of plans for a major funds drive. The Yale basketball team got 011C to as fast a start as their football counterparts, winning four of their first six games and losing the others by one point margins. There was national publicity associated with the first of a series of network television broadcasts involving Yale faculty mem- bers. The undergraduate members of Zeta Psi once again petitioned to have their fraternity changed from a chapter of a national fraternity to a local club. The main thing that December meant, how- ever, was the Christmas vacation and the chance to get away from the pressure of curricular and extra-curricular commitments. A150: Congressmen John V. Lindsay and Ches- ter Bowles . . . Rev. Albert T. Mollegen . . . J. Robert Oppenheimer . . . Professor Ralph H. L. Slater . . . sculptor Naum Gabo . . . the Lucerne Festival Strings . . . uThe Andersonville Trial and uSweet Love Remembered. JANUARY It seemed like everything went wrong in Janu- Illir 110! Simre, bill . . . ary. To start with, no one could be very happy coming back to Yale with the spectre of exami- nations lurking in the shadows. A determined studentefaculty attack on the abolition of the semester break was the first failure. Then the big fire in Liggett's turned out to be something burn- ing on the grill, hardly worth the trouble of the firemen who swarmed all over the drugstore. The Postmaster-General got into the act next by try- ing to stop the savings bond Chain letter which was making a lot of money for everyone, includ- ing the government. Governor Rockefeller even withdrew from the race for the Presidential nomi- nation, leaving the highly organized Yale-for- Rockefeller Club in the embarrassing position of having to cancel all of its meetings and button orders. Enough to make a man an anarchist. Finally, about 70 students in Silliman got upset stomachs. Director of the Department of Uni- versity Health, Dr. John S. Hathaway said that the disorder was ilmild, but then he doesn't eat in Silliman. Herbert M. Kunz, who is in charge of the university's dining halls, said that the sick- ness was dehnitely not caused by the food. The Silliman dietieian was not available for comment; she had an upset stomach tmust have been some- thing she atey A more serious problem came to a head in January, when more than twenty undergraduates were implicated in a morals offense. The problem was actually bipartite, for the relationship be- tween the city and campus police, as well as the conduct of the student body, was involved. The students concerned were given only small fines,

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NOVEMBER Politics and music shared the spotlight in No- vember. Locally, Mayor Richard Lee was returned to ofiice by a substantial, but reduced majority. Two Chubb Fellows, former Attorney-General Herbert Brownell and Senator Edmund S. Mus- kie were at Yale for visits of a few days. The Yale-for-Rockefeller organization, which apparw ently had fewer counterparts around the country than was then thought, sponsored a talk by Rep- resentative Stuyvesant Wainwright. President Tsiranana of Madagascar also spoke. The Kingston Trio led the musical events of the month off with a concert at the New Haven Arena. Another appearance of interest to folk music enthusiasts was that of Josh White at the Jewish Community Center. Jazz buffs had their best month in several years, for in addition to a Woolsey Hall performance of Teddy Charles and company, there was a show at the Arena that in- cluded the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Lambert, Hend- ricks, and Ross, Chris Conner, and Chico Hamil- ton. The Boston Symphony and the Juilliard Quartet catered to classical music fanciers, and a group of voice students from the Music School sang madrigals to the Elizabethan Club as it con- cluded celebrations marking the 400th anniver- sary of its namesake's accession to the throne. Yale produced plenty of news of its ownM for instance the announcement that Kingman Brewster, a professor in the Harvard Law School, would succeed Norman S. Buck as university provost. The publication of the plans for the new residential colleges was also news, bad news for those upperclassmen who had hoped to park their cars on the site all winter tthe steel strike even- tually reprieved theml. The first volume of the Franklin papers was published by the Yale Press in November, an event of considerable impor- tance, inspiring even a story in Life. The Art Gallery received a gift of thirty-three Renais- sance paintings from Mr. and Mrs. Louis Meyer Rabinowitz, which, when taken in connection with the earlier gift of a statue by Henry Moore, illustrated Yale's quiet rise to preeminence among college art galleries. The evcr-present spirit of Abraham Pierson exerted itself through the ad- administration, and the Rheingold Girls were not encouraged to pay their annual visit. Both Penn and Yale were beaten the week before they met, but the game still figured to be the best game of the year in the Ivy League. And 15 it was. Although Penn won 28-12, the game was really very close, and it was an exhibition of skillful and hard-nosed football that com- pared favorably with that played anywhere in the country. The next week saw Yale and Princeton exchange touchdowns until the Blue defense caught hold and made the scoring one-sided, 38-20. Yale teams won ten of the twelve football games played with Harvard teams, including a 28-24 victory climaxing an undefeated season for the Bullpups; but one of the two losses was a 35-6 one to the Harvard varsity. Alto: Rev. Elfas Rees . Rev. William C. Pollard, Executive Director of the Oak Ridge Project . Sir Hugh Casson, architect to the Queens . . . Professors Walter Berns and Samuel Eliot Morison . . . Willard E. Uphaus . . . Janet Gaynor in The Midnight Sun, Shirley Booth in A Loss of Roses, Eartha Kitt and Wendell Corey in iiJolly's Progress, and Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes in Silent Night, Lonely Night . . . Gretta Thyssen in the Hesh. Rederr'clolmlelzl wulimm m1 schedule

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:7: but a rearrangement of the Yale security system was necessary after the incident. January was not all bad, however, for Harvard hnished a $82,500,000 fund drive successfully. The rumor that this money would be used to construct a tunnel from Cambridge to Boston Common proved to be unfounded. The Yale Film Society's endeadvor, The End of Summer? was awarded the Jesse L. Lasky Intercollegiate Film Prize. Yale was publicly congratulated by the New Haven newspapers for its contribution of 2091 pints of blood to the Connecticut Red Cross Program. Aim: Norman Thomas . . . NAACP national officer Herbert L. Wright . . . Dore Schary . . . French architect Abraham Beer . . . Thomas Mitchell in Cut of the Ax, Brian Aherne and Katherine Cornell in Dear Liar . . . Moscow State Symphony Artur Rubenstein Netherlands Quartet. F EBRUARY At about the same time that the Political Union celebrated its 25th Anniversary, the Yale chapter of the NAACP was reactivated, and it was an- nounced that George F. Kennan would teach at Yale during the first semester of the 1960-61 session. Yale also disclosed that it was preparing to forge ahead of Harvard and Princeton in salary level for instructors and assistant professors. The fraternities began an abbreviated rush period, but before it had been finished York Hall, which denationalized last year, was forced to CIOse because of insufficient present or poten- tial membership. Chi Psi had already sold its Dancing till 2 at UM Lawn Club ma 38 a a wma- 32mm fume qt Rev. Caffm receive: P. U. William Bcutan Award house to the university, and was not participating in the rush until its future had been established. The January rule making it illegal to entertain ladies in 21 students room on a weekday was re- laxed to allow students to have lady guests on Fridays also. The reorganization of the Yale security system was completed with the appointment of native New Haven FBI agent John W. Powell to the post of Security Director and Associate Dean of Students. In the meantime, the spectator athletes of the student body, discouraged by Yale's stum- bling basketball and hockey teams, were treated to a 3-2 upset win over a highly regarded RPI hockey team. The Senate filibuster and the lunch counter9 controversies in the South stirred sympathetic re- actions among a significant portion of the student body. Few transformed their sympathy into ac- tion, however, such as the picketing of the New Haven branch of Woolwortlfs. This inactivity resulted, in part, from the new Nezm board's editorial policy of organized apathy. The Junior Prom brought Billy May and Micki Marlo t0 the Yale campus, but, more important, it was the occasion for the flrst art festival in which each college displayed creative work by its students and faculty members. A150: Rev. Paul Tillich, Alfred Kaz?n, Robert Brustein, and Rev. Tom F. Driver at the Divinity School Art Festival. . . . Senator Jacob Javits . . . English geneticist Sir Ronald Fischer . . . William Zeckendorff . . . Bishop Fulton J. Sheen . . . Philadelphia mayor, Richardson Dilworth . . . Will Herberg . . . swimmer Chris von Saltza . . . Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra . . . Dame Myra Hess . . . Philadelphia woodwind Quintet . . . Bob Gibson, Jean Baez, and the Tarriers. 1.; av