1:.. v I I MAR I I 4 1942 , , 1-u._, ........... t rt tto-- Volume XXXVIII Z-79 HARTFORD, CONN., MARCH 3, 1942 Number 18 Trinity Quintet Wreaks Vengeance "Your Quaint Honor" Slated Taylor Discloses Plans for for Presentation Aprill7; on Wesleyan in Hard-fought Game Rehearsals Already Started First Trial Blackout Tonight SYSTEM TESTED SCORE 45-43 Sixteen Members of Rifle CAST PICKED TRINITY CALENDAR Club Qualify for Ladder Tuesday, March 3: Maxwell, O'Malley, Tullar Nancy Knowles, Hall Take Lead Trial Blackout. Trial Blackout to Simulate Wednesday, March 4: Lead Blue and Gold Dexter, Chambers, Seigel Lead In Jester Production; to War-tim.e Conditions Broadcast Act One Varsity Basketball vs. Hamilton, to Victory Challenge List Carding there. Minus Red Cross Scores of 94 and Up Thursday, March 5: ---·- "Your Quaint Honor," the Jesters 12.30 p. m. Meeting of Executive COLLEGE READY TEAM-WORK NOTED Members of the Rifle Club, who have spring production slated for presen­ Committee of Trustees. Shelters Can Accommodate Entire shot their qualification targets, are tation April 17, has to date gone 8 p.m. Varsity and Freshman Freshmen Lose Final Contest of Swimming vs. Wesleyan, here. Student ~ Body, Three Hundred now permitted to challenge the person through three rehearsals. Extra if Necessary Year 51-35; Littell of immediately ahead of them in the The cast of this farce includes Friday, March 6: Wesleyan Stars 8.15 p. m. Trinity College on ladder. Each member who has not Nancy Knowles whose histrionics the air; Jesters present first March 3-Tonight's blackout wil been previously challenged by the were considered by many to have simulate actual war raid conditions Middletown, February 28-Between act of "Your Quaint Honor." person below him may challenge been the outstanding feature of the except that no Red Cross units or starting forward Bill Peelle's set-shot Saturday, March 7: the person above him. Members are last Jesters' offering. Miss Knowles 8 p. m. Freshman Dance in the flying squads will be used, it was dis· n the first minute of play and Johnny only permitted to make one challenge takes the part of Victoria Jones, a Commons. closed today by Dr. Philip E. Taylor, Fink's final free throw with 2% min­ a week and these must be shot within scholarly lady vieing for an appoint­ Sunday, March 8: utes to go in the game, ten inspired professor in charge of the college's one week of date of challenge. ment to a college faculty. Norman Chapel Services at 8, 11, and 5 and scrappy Trinity men shot the 45 air raid precautionary measures. Sixteen of the twenty-three mem- Hall, the Jesters' president, plays o'clock. precious points that defeated a Wes­ "When the blackout signal sounds,' hers have shot their qualification tar- Barnaby Richards, her rival. Peter, leyan varsity basketball team for the Professor Taylor said, "each person gets so far. Thirteen out of the six- the facetious younger brother of first time in three years, 45-43. will turn out the lights in his own teen have shot carded scores of Barnaby, will be portrayed by Stan "Life, Laughter and Tears" a Filling the large Wesleyan field­ room and go directly to the shelter 90 or over. E. Dexter, '44, took first Knowles. bouse the yelling audience saw Coach Triple Literary Catastrophe to which he has been assign'ed. The place on the ladder with a score of The character of Gerald will be Wes Fesler's men pull away to a tem­ Trinity wardens will make their 97. Although A. Chambers, '44, also performed by Drew Brinkerhoff; that porary 8-2 lead in the first six min­ SAROYAN, O'CASEY FAIL rounds five, te,n and fifteen minutes scored a 97, Dexter was awarded .first of John by Charles Hodgkins; James, utes, sink low under the bombardment after the alarm has sounded in order position for better grouping. A copy Mike Kellin; Joe Spiggot, Bud Moyer; of Maxwell, Tullar, and O'Malley and Eddie Dowling and Julie Haydon to make sure no lights are showing of the ladder follows: · Lucy, Geraldine Ledwith; the Judge, then lose the lead permanently as Try Vainly to Instill Life and that everyone is in a shelter. We E. W. Dexter, '44; A. L. Chambers, Henry Getz; and Mr. Skinner, Fink made two foul shots to put Trin­ Into Lifeless Trilogy feel certain the blackout will be com­ 'ty ahead 14-13 midway in the first '44; A. Siegel, '44; M. Johnquest, '44; Franklin Romaine. pletely in effect five minutes follow­ half. From then on Wesleyan rooters R. Thron, '45; W. J. Hinson, Jr., '43; On the evening of March 6, the By Morgan Gleszer ing the alarm." showed mixed emotions of disappoint­ R. Caleceto, '42; P. Groebli, Jr., '45; Jesters will broadcast the first act Last Thursday evening, three one­ The college shelters could, if neces­ ment and unfounded optimism as their T. Grimes, '44; F. Ellis, '45; J. Brown, and the first scene of the second act act plays, two by William Saroyan sary, accommodate the entire under­ heroes fell as much as 13 points be­ '43; J. Wilson, '44; D. Paine, '43; L. from the chemistry -<~.uditorium. This and one by Sean O'Casey, inauspi­ graclua.te body, Profe.ssor Taylor said, hind in the second half, later to pull Mitchell, '45; A. Stafford, '43; A., presentation will go on the air at 8.15 ciously arrived at the Bushnell Me­ and with a bit of squeezing take care within two points of Trin a few sec­ Fenoglio, '43. over the facilities of WTHT. morial under the title of "Life, of 800 people. In this connection Dr. onds before the final gun. Laughter, and Tears." It might have Taylor mentioned the fact that the The teams were evenly matched ex­ been just as well if they never had Trinity shelters are open to passers­ cept for the first minutes of the sec­ Far-sighted Condisciple Begets Scheme arrived at all, for "Life, Laughter by. In an actual raid the college ond half. Trinity's keen work in pick­ and Tears" were neither lifelike, wardens would assist the Hartford ng the ball off both back-boards and To Revamp Campus, Consume Undergrad laughable, nor tearful; they only A.R.P. wardens in stopping Summit proved once more, and this time their perfect guarding kept Wesleyan By J. A. C. Street traffic to bring motorists and scoreless for five minutes. The half­ quite conclusively, that a producer pedestrians into the college shelters. time score was 23-21 in favor of Trin­ Yale University recently announced the inauguration of unprecedented can sometimes make a fatal mistake. As yet the Trinity shelters have not ty. Maxwell opened the scoring in wartime courses in wood chopping and, we presume, muck raking, designed The producer who at present has com­ been equipped for extensive living bnt the second half with a foul shot fol­ to lift the male constitution from its customary slumbers in slovenity to an mitted this indiscretion is Eddie have been made as comfortable as lowed immediately by a double-decker. approximation of Johnny Weissmuller and Superman. Late reports indicate Dowling, who also served as chief possible. In the event of a long Bill Black grabbed the ball out of a that our brother institution at New Haven is searching for uncleared stands actor of the evening, together with blackout period for Hartford, covering W esman's hands and dashed the length of hurricane timber and forest pri- Julie Haydon, who also played Fon­ several weeks or months, it would be of the floor for two points. O'Malley meval. tanne to his Lunt in "The Time of necessary for the college defense Vassar, Sarah Lawrence. And with and Tullar then collaborated on some Why such a flurry in New Haven, Your Life," the successful Saroyan council to undertake a much more new muscle and new strength, greater beautiful team-work to account for such a silence in Hartford? Does play of two seasons ago. ambitious program for provisioning wisdom, more foresight, better taste six more points before Captain John­ not the average Trinity freshman ex­ In their present association with and making liveable the shelters. -let her come to you! son of W esieyan made his third point ceed the average Yale frosh by one Saroyan (and O'Casey), Mr. Dowling Professor Taylor mentioned the dif­ of the game to snap the spell. Trin­ quarter inch in height, two inches You who know what Trinity is like and Miss Haydon have discovered to (Continued on page 4.) ty was not to be denied. Constantly about the hips, and three about the on a midwinter weekend, and it is a their dismay that they had the un­ they broke up passes and kept even waist? Have not several dozen Yale very lonely place, know that even the enviable task of applying artificial Roberts, the great Wesleyan set-shot men taken up residence mid the ground-keepers go away. A time­ respiration to three quite lifeless Lafore Urges Spirit artist as a freshman, from becoming superb beauties of southern Hart­ worn custom these weekends, but plays. of Close Co-operation (Continued on page 3.) ford? Why then no cry for venge­ necessary, vital? Consider the con­ The first offering of the evening ance? True that only God can make trast to silent corridors and empty was Mr. Saroyan's "Coming Through "The people of the United States a tree; but a Yale man, a Harvard fields, of heaving, sweating, cursing the Rye" (Life).