YALE DAILY NEWS I

The "riot" in the second line was explained in column 1: The 1500 students gathered on the Old Campus and moved to Elm Street, where as "the amused citizenry looked on" they "strewed parking signs." Next stop, President Seymour''s house on Hillhouse Avenue, where they sang one stanza of the Star Spangled Banner and were led in "Bright College Years" by Carl Lohman, University Secretary, before hearing a short speech by Charles Seymour. Next stop, an "unsuccessful assault on the Club Knickerbocker" [a mildly notorious drinking spot south of the campus]. Next, 500 of the group went into the Taft Hotel, threw forward passes with sofa pillows and broke some property. At midnight, "enthusiasm piddled out" and a sitdown strike on the streetcar tracks beneath a rain of water bombs from upper floors of the Taft led to a "mild wielding of police billies by the New Haven constabulary." Then they all went home. No arrests, no injuries.

WHAT WAS IN STORE FOR US?

Selective Service:
The United States first adopted peacetime conscription with the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The act provided that not more than 900,000 men were to be in training at any one time, and it limited service to 12 months----later (1941) extended to 18 months. After the United States entered World War II, a new selective service act made men between 18 and 45 liable for military service and required all men between 18 and 65 to register. The terminal point of service was extended to six months after the war. From 1940 until 1947----when the wartime selective service act expired after extensions by Congress----over 10,000,000 men were inducted.

Registration notice, [Yale News, Tuesday, December 9, page 1], signed by James S. Tomkins, Secretary, Yale University Committee on Selective Service. Addressed to "To All Male Students in Yale University Who Were Twenty-one on or Before July 1, 1941." They must complete a special Student Report on Selective Service Status. "This notification from General Hershey included all students in this age group without exception." The registration was to take place the next day, Wednesday, December 10, 9am to 5pm in the college masters'' offices or the graduate school. "The report must be completed, checked, and forwarded to Washington Thursday."

Those already in the services or planning to go. Of the class of 1941 (graduated in June, before Pearl Harbor), 25 percent were already in the services. Of the class of 1942 (ca. 846 seniors), 21% had already planned to go into the services following graduation and had so notified Yale. During the week following Pearl Harbor, several University officials expressed the view that completing their academic program was the best bet for those now undergraduates. In the event, virtually all those enrolled at Yale on December 7 served in the armed forces by the end of WWII.

Op-ed column by W. Liscum Borden, a member of the class of 1942. Yale Daily News, 12/2/41

The Case for Immediate War on Japan
Immediate war on Japan would bring home to the man in the street the seriousness of the world situation as can no eight-point peace aims and fake gas shortages. Morale in America would be heightened, the demand for action satisfied, and greater unity brought about. Moreover, there is far greater unanimity of opinion, according to the polls, in favor of a stiff front against Japan than there is for intervention in Europe.

More important, we could use to advantage the one effective military instrument we now possess: our navy. If our navy is concentrated in the Pacific for a showdown, then experts--such as the gentleman who wrote Armed Forces in the Pacific--seem to think we could quickly bring the Japs to their knees. [5 more paragraphs]

Running on Broadway the Week of Pearl Harbor
Best Foot Forward, with Rosemary Lane
Candle in the Wind, by Maxwell Anderson, with Helen Hayes.
Claudia, by Rose Franken
Junior Miss, by Chodoroff and Fields
Lady in the Dark, with Gertrude Lawrence
Life With Father, by and with Howard Lindsay
My Sister Eileen, by Chodoroff and Fields
Panama Hattie, with Ethel Merman
The Land is Bright, by Geo. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

YALE DAILY NEWS for the week of
January 5, 1942

THE WEATHER:
Temperature in New Haven on January 6 and 7: 10F to 20F. Headed to -5F.

WAR:
NELSON RESIGNS, SUCCESSOR STILL UNCERTAIN/NATION ASKS COLLEGES TO EXPAND ATHLETICS. Spike Nelson, head football coach, goes to Corps of Engineers.

APPLICATIONS DUE FOR AIR COURSE. Civilian Pilot Training course offers training for Army, Navy forces.

COLLEGES ADOPT 18-POINT PLAN TO MEET WAR. Association of American Colleges [1000 colleges] meeting in Baltimore. "Concerning voluntary enlistment, Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of the Selective Service System, took the stand that this would be discouraged and might later be prohibited."

REVISED YALE CALENDAR. Commencement for 1942 moved up one week to June 8-9. Reading period in may shortened by one week.

4 PASS EXAMINATIONS FOR V-7 PROGRAM. Navy. Louis L. Hemingway, Peter W. Asher, Donald B. Lamont ('42) and Edward Patterson ('43). P.4

JAP BOMBS FIRE HOSPITAL AT YALI, CHINESE REPORT. [Reports over the next two weeks vary about extent of the damage.]

NO MORE SPEEDING; NUTMEG STATE SETS NEW 40-MILE LIMIT. Until now, no speed limit beyond "safe and reasonable." Merritt Parkway's 50 MPH probably to be reduced. Purpose: Save gas, tires, lives.

TRAFFIC GROUP STARTS NEW SAFETY CONTEST; NEW HAVEN ENTERED

SANDBAGGING OF WOODBRIDGE, WRIGHT ARE FIRST STEPS TO SAFEGUARD YALE.

PERSONALITIES:
ALBERT G. KELLER TO LEAVE YALE ON JANUARY 16. Professor of Science and Society to retire after 50 years.

PAPPY LEE O'DANIEL, SENATOR FROM TEXAS, CALLS FOR PROHIBITION. Would use money saved for defense bonds and stamps.

ARCHDUKE OTTO "Speaking on 'Europe and the Danubian Crisis,' His Imperial Highness, the Archduke Otto of Austria, will lecture at Pierson College Common Room, Monday at 8."

ATHLETICS/ACTIVITIES:
Chess match with Harvard, Dec 21-22 in New York City. Hillary Waugh won 2-1. (Overall, Yale lost to Harvard).

Athletic Association Awards. Minor Y, Cross Country, David F. Harris, '42. Football Insignia (150 lb football squad): H. K. Dell, C. C. Esty, W. A. Gamble, W. D. Hindenlang, H. C. Kranichfeld, D. A. Kubie, R. P. Masland, H. B. Smythe, W. S. Webber, R. W. Halsey.

HOCKEY CLUB FACES QUEENS VICTORIAS. Yale team includes: Jigger Harrison, Jack Chapin, Bob Gill, Ace Pike, Spink Davis, Jack Thompson, Ben Toland Next day: ELI ICEMEN BLANK QUEENS VICTORIAS. Harrison, Leboutillier Spark Last Period Rally for Yale's Fourth Win.

"Winner of the Norman Hall Trophy for 1941 is Francis E. Jones, Jr., of West Hartford, Conn., 1942, now in the military service of the United States, Ogden Miller, Yale director of athletics, announced yesterday."

CHAMPAGNE, PARTIES, DEBS HIGHLIGHT
300-MILE JAUNT OF YALE DRAMAT

[The program for the Dramat's Christmas tour and
the itinerary may be found on the Internet at
http://home.att.net/~t.furniss/Recollections.htm ]

SHOWING IN NEW HAVEN:
Russian Don Cossack Chorus to perform at Woolsey Hall Jan. 7.
Review of movie, "The Man Who Came to Dinner," with Monty Woolley.
Orson Wells in "Citizen Kane" opens at the Shubert Theater

ADVERTISEMENTS:
Buy Defense Bonds and Invest in America's Future.

David Dean Smith Music Store advertises Victor Record News. Musical Masterpiece Albums - 4 sides for $2.50, 6 sides for $3.50. Single Red Seal records - $1.00. A later advertisement: Popular records: Victor - $.50 each, Bluebird - $.35*

Camel Cigarets. Promises "28% Less Nicotine." Swimmer Ralph Flanagan shown with cigaret saying "Camels always taste great. And that EXTRA MILDNESS means a lot to me naturally."

STORK CLUB/ No Cover or Minimum / Two Orchestras / Strictly Formal / No extra charge of any kind for Yale Men .....

*Inflation Calculator - You can translate prices using the Internet. Go to http://minneapolisfed.org/economy/calc/cpihome.html. A dollar in 1941 is the equivalent of
$12.09 today. For 1942 prices, the conversion is $10.90.

Yale Daily News for the week of
January 12, 1942

WAR:
Corporation Approves Speed-up Program; Degrees Given After 2 Years 8 Months. New War Courses Listed by University. Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Japanese to be taught.

Picture of swearing-in of 15 recruits to V-7 program, including from 1942: W. M. Adams, P. W. Asher, H. M. Brush, J. Chandler, W. L. Conygham, B. A. Copp, C. F. Emery, L. L. Hemingway, D. B. Lamont, J. F. Magee. Recruiter said, "You are now in the U. S. Navy and that means you are under orders. Your orders are to go back to school and graduate."

Expenses for Accelerated and Present Scholastic Program.

Tuition: Present $1800, Accelerated $1750 (Sum. $200, Fall $225, Spr. $225)

Room in Residential Colleges: Present $1300 - $1100 - $800; Accelerated: $1275 - $1075 - $780. Board: Present $1088, Accelerated $999. ($9 per week. Former price $8 per week).

Two Week Drive For Books Opens: Student Contributors Will Aid Service Men. Wanted: novels, plays, poetry, biography, short stories, and technical books.

Yale in China: Clarifying report - hospital's buildings, except foreign residences, were burned by Japanese.

Air Raid Wardens Will Meet Today.

What If Incendiary Bombs Fell on Yale? Local Fire Force Stages Demonstration.

Gene Tunney Tells College Students Smoking is an Insidious Practice. "Everyone Has Patriotic Duty to Keep Fit." Lt. Cmdr. Tunney, on duty as head of the National Physical Fitness Program, said,"The evils of smoking are not well understood. ... Smoking is the most insidious habit that the human race has ever developed."

New Haven RR Drops Friday Skiing Specials. "Because of the shortage of Pullman cars caused by the war emergency."

Navy to Sign Up 200 Next Week for V-7 program, Juniors and Seniors. "All applicants must be native born citizens of the United States between the ages of 19 and 27, and must present birth or baptismal certificates to prove so. They must also have three letters of recommendation, an official United States Navy Enlistment blank, and a notification from the University regarding their academic standing."

Congress May Start Daylight Time Feb. 4 - "will become an all-year time basis."

Radio Censorship Director Price Bans Quiz Programs as Defense Measure. WOCD May Have to Investigate Persons Interviewed, Eliminate Sound Effects Suggestive of Fighting. "According to Price, these restrictions will have the effect of preventing saboteurs within the country from gaining information through the domestic stations and prevent enemy agents without, from benefitting likewise." Stations must investigate the backgrounds of quiz program participants; dramatic programs with sounds of combat prohibited (remembering the Orson Welles panic); request programs, especially late at night, prohibited; no broadcast of advice to lost persons; no broadcast of information from unauthorized sources about ship sinkings, reverses or successes of land forces; only official weather data; none but official emergency announcements.

ENTERTAINMENT:
The Ice Follies were to be at the New Haven Arena February 4 - 10. Admission $1.10. Reserved seats $1.65 - $2.20.

Cornelia Otis Skinner in "Theater" by Guy Bolton and Somerset Maugham

New Haven Movie Schedule - double features: Bijou - Double Trouble, Men of the Timberlands. College - Babes on Broadway, Mrs. North. Paramount - Bahama Passage, The Night of January 16. Poli - H. M. Pulham, Sing for Your Supper. Roger Sherman - You Belong to Me, Target for Tonight. Single feature - Raimu playing in The King at the Lincoln. Advertized as "The Rex with Sex" but reviewed as a serious film dealing with venereal disease.

WOCD (Yale's radio station) schedule for 1/14/42: 5.00pm - Jam for Supper; 7.30 - Tin Pan Alley; 8.00 - Camel Caravan; 8.15 - WOCD Basketball; 10.00 - News; 10.05 - Symphony.

ADVERTISERS:
MORY'S / Monday Night Special / Table D'Hote Dinner / For Members and Guests Only / 5:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.

HOF=BRAU HAUS [sic]/ Restaurant / Church Street at Crown / An old LANDMARK to / YALE MEN for one - / third of a century / The Most Popular BEERS / on Draught / Finest Wines & Liquors / Try our / Table d'Hote Dinner / $1.00 and up / PHIL RITTER, Host.

Elm City Tutoring School / 17 Broadway Telephone 7-1038 / REVIEWS FOR TESTS / Biology 10 - Part I.....Tonight at 7.30 P.M. / (Repeated Wednesday at 4 P.M.) / Part II .... Tuesday at 7.30 P.M. / (Not Repeated) / H. J. Turner '35

Full page. Yale Coop. Book list. (Includes complete works of Shakespeare, 1280 pages, $.79)

Group of advertisements, headed GOING TO SMITH, from Fireside Grille, Toto's, Draper Hotel, Pagoda Restaurant, The "V" Shop, Rahar's Inn, Bailey's Flowers, Berniers Legal Beverage Shop, Beckman's Restaurant, Hotel Northampton & Wiggins Old Tavern.

ATHLETICS/ACTIVITIES:
224 Elis Participate in Saturday's Events. "With the possibility that intercollegiate team sports at Yale be curtailed and an all-embracing compulsory calisthenics program for physical preparedness be inaugurated, it is interesting to note that over 24 Yale students participated in the regularly-established intercollegiate meets taking place during the past weekend."

Eli Sharpshooters Downed by NYU. Pigott is High Scorer for Yale.

Photo: Howie Johnson about to dive: "Mermen Battle Mass. Staters in Amherst Pool."

Ski Bulletin Lack of good snow everywhere.

Shevelove Names Dramat Actors. For Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. A leading role for George R. Nichols.

HONORS/ELECTIONS:
Six Seniors Picked in DeForest Prize. Men to Speak Tuesday For Yale's Oldest Prize. Those chosen: John Arcudi, W. Liscum Borden, Robert A. Burman, Howard M. Holtzmann, Frank P. Samford, Edwin W. Waldrop.

Phi Beta Kappa Elects 4 Officers. Phil Ewald, President, announces election of John Williams, Vice-President; Benjamin Toland, Secretary; Rene Chouteau, Treasurer; Oliver W. Toll, member, Executive Committee.

Elizabethan Club Elects -

L. L. Hemingway, John Leggett, Frank Samford, Edgar S. Lockwood, Lewis Wiggin

[Special Attention - 2002 Reunion Committee]

[1942] Alumni Reunions Set Despite War; Classes Ban Costumes. Will Return June 6 - 9. "Simplicity and reduction of expenses will be the order of the day."

Yale Daily News for the week of
January 19, 1942

WAR:
Ensign Reid, 1936, Will Interview Applicants For Naval Reserve Flying. Unit Needs 15-20 Men, Plus Nine Already Enlisted For Third Yale Camp to Train at Floyd Bennett. "The plan of training is as follows: 1. Eight to nine weeks of basic training at Floyd Bennett Field, at $36 a month base pay, $36 more in subsistence pay, and $18 additional a month for flying. 2. Four weeks of ground school at Atlanta, New Orleans, or Dallas, at the same pay. 3. Five months at Pensacola, Corpus Christi, or Jacksonville at $75 a month plus subsistence pay, at first learning to fly all types of planes; later specialization. 4. After graduation an ensign's pay of $245 a month."

Yale to Continue Liberal Education During Wartime. Dean DeVane Explains Mistake of Emphasizing Technical Work Alone. "'The decline of education in the liberal arts field is directly responsible for lapses in leadership' said Dean William C. DeVane in a statement after the Saybrook 'Cakes and Ale' discussion in the house of Professor Elliott Dunlap Smith, Master of Saybrook College."

College Boards Drop Essay Type Questions

Knox Lifts Love Ban: Marriage For Flyers. "Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, made a slight concession to romance yesterday when he approved a new ruling permitting Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve flyers to marry any time after they have received commissions as ensigns or second lieutenants. Until now these men were required to remain unmarried for two years after completing training. It is not known how this development will affect the number of volunteers."

Coast Guard Calls For College Men. Basic Training to Create 600 Reserve Officers.

Selection Board Accepts 38 Elis For V-7 Rating in Naval Reserve. Successful Candidates Picked from 261 Applicants. All Prefer Deck Service to Engineering Positions. Seniors not to be called to active duty before June. Members of Class of 1942: William T. Bell, Edward H. Lockwood, Robert E. White, Jr., William D. Seidler, Lowell M. Palmer II, Charles F. Freeman Jr., John W Leggett.

Air Force Applicants Must Enroll at 7.15 [1/26] "The class to which an applicant belongs in no consideration as long as he is over 18 years of age.".

Identification Required for Seagoing Civilians. Applies to cruising in all coastal waters. Applications forms available for permits at Sterling Library.

New Haven Railroad to Raise Fares 10%. Raise encouraged by government. New fares: New Haven to New York, $1.60. New Haven to Boston, $3.47.

WINNERS
Holtzmann Wins DeForest Medal for Best Oration; audience Favors Winner Over Six Opponents By 2 to 1 Majority. [actually, there were five opponents] "The prize is the DeForest Medal, the oldest award in Yale History, or $100....Holtzmann's speech, entitled The Wound and the Bow, drew a parallel between an ancient Greek hero, Philoctetes, and the United States in the present world conflict." Competitors in addition to Holtzmann: John A. Arcudi, A Rational Faith in Humanity, Frank P. Samford Jr., The Larger View, Edwin W. Waldrop, Preserving the Religious Tradition at Yale,Robert A. Burman, Democracy and the Free Press, W. Liscum Borden, China and Cultural Uniformity. Presiding, Dean William C. DeVane, 1920.

'B' Chess Team Downs Hartford. Hillary Waugh among 4 winners.

Professor Malinowski to Lead Debate on Peace Plans. Bronislaw Malinowski will uphold resolution, "Resolved, that after the war the United States should favor a complete government with legislative, executive and judiciary, and a monopoly of armed forces." Note: two days after the debate, which Malinowski won, his promotion to full professor of cultural anthropology was announced.

ATHLETICS
Rumored Choice of Big-Name Coach Apparent End to Shifting Eli Policy. 'Trapeze Ride' Summarizes College's Vacillation Between De-Emphasizing, Desire for Big-Time Teams. This headline was only one in a many about the role of football at Yale, not only in wartime.

TOWN & GOWN
Local Fire-Eaters Race to G&H Conflagration. "Three hose trucks, a hook-and-ladder, and two official cars raced to the scene of what seemed to be a major conflagration at the Wall Street George and Harry's yesterday afternoon, but their efforts were for the most part unnecessary. The fire, which proved nothing more than a small oil-burner out of control in the basement, accomplished little more than tying up traffic on College and Temple Streets for three quarters of an hour and attracting a large crowd of local arson addicts. The elm city fire-eaters, called out in the rain for such a minor assignment, were no little disgruntled by the whole affair. Said one, 'If they're going to call us out, they might at least have a fire for us to fight.'"

New York Pinball Ban Leaves Local Dealers Calm and Confident. Sam of the Smoke Shop, speaking for George and Harry's, the Toasty, and other Yale hangouts, said "Our machines are put in purely for the pleasure, not for gambling purposes. We pay $10 tax on every one as it is.

EVENTS
Seymours to Receive Undergraduates at Tea. "President and Mrs. Seymour will be at home to undergraduates this Sunday and next Sunday, January 25 and February 1, at 43 Hillhouse Avenue from 4.30 to 6. Assisting them at tea this Sunday will be Dean and Mrs. Norman S. Buck, Captain and Mrs. Charles C. Gill, Professor J. M. S. Allison, and Mr. and Mrs. James M. Tomkins. Announcement will be made later of the dates on which the President and Mrs. Seymour will receive graduate students."

Huxley to Deliver Woodward Lecture. Julian Huxley, King's College, University of London, to speak on "Evolution Up To Date."

LAUGH OF THE WEEK
State Police Ready For Air-Raids, Gas, Says Officer Grant. "When asked about gas attacks, he laughed and said, 'Boy! What a hell of a mess that'd be. Of course, we have the best gas-masks in the world.'"

Yale Daily News for the week of
January 26, 1942

WAR:
[Lead editorial] Remember Pearl Harbor! "Along with many another American we read Associate Justice Roberts' report yesterday only to have our confidence in the High Commands of both Army and Navy shaken to the very roots. Preliminary statements and information released from Washington indicated that the disaster was the result of negligence, but it took this forthright report by the investigating commission to drive home the real significance of the initial Japanese success...."

Eateries Caught in 'Coke Shortage'; National Sugar Rationing Cuts Local Consumption.

Production of Radios Cut 40% to Supply War Industry Needs. Includes record players.

No Compulsory Physical Education Will be Forced on US Colleges. "Mass programs in Germany and Italy failed," said Daniel Kelly of the Civil Defense Program, but "Concerning the physical fitness of our own students, Yale University would do well to establish compulsory year-round athletics for all undergraduates three hours a week."

Elis Asked for Form Student Motor Corps. Duties of such a corps "composed of student volunteers owning cars, would be to take coffee out each night to Mitchell Field's air raid spotters' listening post at Fair Haven." The coffee donated by 10 New Haven restaurants.

Yale Announces Master's Degree After One Year. Formerly, two years were required; one year was already common in other universities.

YCC Opens Drive for Blood Donors. Scheduled for the Health Department Feb. 9-11. Goal 300 pints for the military. Those under 21 need a parent's consent. "No certain type of blood is required, since the blood cells are centrifuged out of the plasma, a process which eliminates the need for classification."

MISCELLANEOUS:
January 28 was the 64^th anniversary of the first issue of the Yale Daily News, published in 1878 as a 5-cent 4-page leaflet.

Subscriptions to the Yale Daily News: $3.75 at Yale Station. $4.50 outside.

Investigation Shows Freshmen Selected From 368 Schools. "With an enrollment of 981 students, the Class of 1945 drew its members from no less than 368 separate institutions of learning...." 202 came from high schools from California to New York. The three leading high schools, all in the New Haven Area: New Haven High, Hopkins Grammar School, Hamden High School. Andover provided 62, Hotchkiss 60, Exeter 50, Taft 33, Hill and Choate 26 each.

Dwight Hall Holds Elections Tonight to replace retiring officers (1942) S. H. Reisner, president; H. A. Reed, vice-president; E. C. Reckard, secretary; M.. H. Curtis, treasurer.

Niehbuhr to Defend Challenged Views at University Christian Conference. "He has consistently assailed those who would refuse or postpone action that might contain elements of evil, and ... he will show the need and righteousness of strong resolute action, despite its imperfections."

University Nears Accord on Wages, Hours. Students Turn Domestic, or Suffer Consequences of Maidless Sunday."In all probability no beds will be made on Sunday." The maids' salaries would be raised from $10.50 to $13.50 for a 30-hour week.

Herald Tribune Critic to Speak at Pierson. Virgil Thompson on the criticism of music.

ENTERTAINMENT:
Movie review of All Through the Night with Humphrey Bogart, at the Roger Sherman. Other movies: Bijou: K-33, Red River Valley; College: Corsican Brothers, Miss Polly; Lincoln: Baker's Wife, Palookas; Paramount: Sullivan's travels, Pacific Blackout; Loew's Poli: Unexpected Uncle, Johnny Eager. Next week: Roger Sherman: Suspicion, Mexican Spitfire; Lincoln: The Art of Love (Danielle Darrieux), Bed-Room Diplomat (Reginald Gardiner).

Public Demands Dramat Encore. Rates Reduced to 85¢ for Repeat of 'Earnest'. "In the event of an air raid, meticulous Burt Shevelove assures the public that the show will go on, and should the raid last longer than the performance, there will be impromptu entertainment by the cast."

ADVERTISEMENTS:
Browning King & Co. / "The Store for Men" / Army & Navy / OFFICERS' UNIFORMS / Blouses / Slacks / Overcoats / Mackinaws / FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY / Chapel St. at High.

Other clothing advertisers this week: J. Press, Fenn-Feinstein, Arthur M. Rosenberg, Malley's, Simon-Webb Ltd., Chipp, White, Long's, Roger Kent, Macy's Men's Store.

Yale Daily News for the week of
February 2, 1942

WAR:

Yale to Prepare More Technicians. Requirements Relaxed For Engineering Courses.

U.S. Navy May Lease Yale Facilities To Give Pilots Ground-School Training. Program Calls for Induction of 2500 Monthly; After Three Months' Course Students Will be sent to Reserve Aviation Bases for Flight training. [Two days later, Cornell was reported to have been chosen for this program.]

One Tire Per Customer Warn Local Tradesmen. [They were talking about bicycle tires!]

Half-Hour Blackout, Alarm Drill Scheduled in New Haven Area.

Wartime Marks 'Surprisingly Good"; Failures Lowest in Several Years. 54 in Yale College, Freshmen Year to Enter Services; 28 Candidates Plan to Take February Degrees.

Physics Department revises Program to Meet Demand For Trained Men.

Daylight Saving Goes Into Effect Feb. 9. No changes in schedules of New Haven Railroad.

ON THE CALENDAR
Reinhold Niehbuhr to Address Christian Conference Tonight. On "Meaning of Life." President Seymour will preside.

[Henry] Luce Will Deliver Principal Address at News Banquet.

Advertisement for concert at Woolsey Hall: the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy conducting. In the event, Ormandy came down with a cold and was replaced by Saul Caston who, according to the reviewer, did just as well as the maestro would have done.

Glee Club to Sing in Woolsey Monday. Marshall Bartholemew "resumes his duties after having spent the past month at Fort Bragg, N. C., instructing some 350 potential song leaders of the U. S. Army." Club now has 87 members headed by president Douglas Dodge, 1942.

ATHLETICS
Mermen Take League Lead. Swimmers Sink weak Midshipmen in 59-16 Victory. Twigg-Smith Paces Elis.

Yale Waives Eligibility Rule; Cubs May Play on Varsity. Harvard and Princeton agree to new rule.

Yale Sets the Style as Swimmers Change Tank Suits to Trunks. A war measure, since tank suits take far more material than trunks.

Rifle Team Downs Columbia Nimrods. "Captain John Pigott took high gun honors with 277."

Inter-College League Standings (Including Games Played Thursday, January 29, 1942)
HOCKEY: Davenport 80 points, Trumbull 64, T. Dwight 56, Silliman 48, Berkeley 40, Calhoun 32, Saybrook 24, Pierson 16, J. Edwards 8, Branford 0.
BASKETBALL: Calhoun 80, Davenport 64, Pierson 52, Saybrook 52, Branford 36, Silliman 36, T. Dwight 20, Trumbull 20, Berkeley 8, J. Edwards 0.
SQUASH: Silliman 70, Calhoun 52.5, T. Dwight 52.5, Davenport 38.5, J. Edwards 38.5, Berkeley 24.5, Branford 24.5, Saybrook 7,Trumbull 7, Pierson 7.

Miller Foresees Few Alterations in Yale Athletics. "Many undergraduates have inquired what Yale's policy is to be regarding winter and spring athletic schedules and programs.
"The Yale Athletic Association intends to carry out all varsity, freshman and intramural contests and activities scheduled before the outbreak of war for this winter and the coming spring season providing war conditions permit and the government approves. Some revisions of schedules and a few cancellations will be unavoidable because of war conditions and the accelerated academic schedules in effect at Yale and elsewhere but such changes will me made only when absolutely necessary."

MISCELLANEOUS
[Maynard] Mack Praises Senior "Lit" Board in Criticism of January Issue.

Advertisement for recording of "Porgy and Bess" with Todd Duncan, Anne Brown, and the Eva Jessye Choir, with Alexander Smallens conducting. Four 12" records - $4.72.

More Blood Sought in YCC Campaign. Only 25 of Necessary 300 Volunteers Have Registered. Blood Donors Experience No Pain Or Evil Effects, Says Dr. Rogers.

Special Bill Permits Stern's Stay in U S. "Mr. Kurt G. Stern, a member of the Chemistry Department at Yale during the past six months and a citizen of Germany learned yesterday that the House of Representatives had passed a Singular Bill allowing him to remain in the United States. Although he first came to Yale only on a 60-day permit from the government, Mr. Stern will now be able to establish permanent residence anywhere in the country. It was revealed he would have been deported if this bill had not been passed."

Seniors to Vote Today On Prom Committee. "Mark M. Lindsey, 1942, class secretary, has announced the nominees for the Senior Prom Committee. Seniors are asked to vote at lunch today for one of the two men listed for each College. Nominees are: Berkeley, Robert E. White and James T. Wyman; Branford, George W. Hamlin and John C. Murphy; Calhoun, Charles A. Kilvert Jr. and George W. Wolf Jr.; Davenport, George K. McClelland and Frank A. Sprole; Jonathan Edwards, James R. Anderson Jr. and Rene A. Chouteau; Pierson, Wilfred M. Boucher and Lamkin H. Butts; Saybrook, William K. McOwen and Frank P. Samford; Silliman, Robert J. Alpert and John R. Murphy; Timothy Dwight, William H. Haggard and Oliver W. Toll; Trumbull, Frank A. Kemp and John J. White.