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Entered January 12, 1904, at Hartford, Conn. as second class matter, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October S, 1917, authorized ·March 3, 1919. ALUMNI NEWS ISSUE-Hartford, Conn. Vol. LI New Series No. 1 - February, 1954 BULLETIN ~----------~----------------------------------~' A FEBRUARY MESSAGE Jacobs Says From the Alumni President Free Speech W es, Jeffs Among Six Toppled Did you ever pause to reflect on what life might have been like if you had chanced to have been a contemporary of Abraham Lincoln? Picture yourself as Issue Vital By Surprising Basketball Squad one of a long succession of brothers and sisters reared and schooled in the hard manner by parents who struggled to eke out a frugal existence for all the family Behind headlined charges and sensa­ tional distortions of the issue, leading A hard-fighting basketball team soundly from a few acres of farm land. When you reached an early age you might have educators have remained calm and firm llpset the experts and pre-season dopesters Jessee Touring Europe been gently eased out of the household to fend for yourself in other parts. Sup­ pose you made out fairly well, having a good steady job and a small bank bal­ in their stand for freedom of expression to finish the first half of the season with In Army Sports Clinic as a vital weapon against the communist a near-perfect record of six wins and only ance years later. lmagine the feeling of satisfaction which might have been conspiracy. In a number of recent speeches one Jo ss. Coach Dan Jessee will leave next week yours when you sent a few spare dollars back home to buy shoes for the youngest Dr. Jacobs has made his position clear. The team got off to a fine start with for Europe and a three-week tour con­ boy, a few school books for the other kids or new shingles for the hen-house roof. Here is a summary of his stand, excerpted decisive margins over Bowdoin, MIT, and ducting baseball coaching clinics for And what a time you would have had, if you had made the long trip back to from speeches to Jaw, church and Jay armed forces personnel. the old homestead for a family reunion picnic, to talk at length once again with the University of Massachusetts. Not until groups: the fourth game, against a powerful and the kin-folk, revisiting familiar scenes and reviving faded memories. It would He will make the trip at the invitation "Freedom of expression is the very consid erably taller Williams club, did they have been an interesting and wholesome experience, one which any of us might of the Army's Special Services Division. foundation of the American way of life. lapse into the losing column. wish to enjoy. Clinics are scheduled in Nuremburg, Vi­ Our form of society was a noble experi­ The Williams game was the first of As an alumnus of Trinity, you have a continuing opportunity to experience enna and Paris. D an will return in time ment against the forces which denied the four straight contests in which Trinity's the modern counterpart of these simple pleasures, although a century has inter­ for the opening of spring baseball prac­ freedoms we cherish .... opposition was definitely favored- but the vened since the time of Honest _Abe. This year, next year, and each year there­ tice. "Our nation, our way of life are now Hilltoppers won the last three in spite after the activities of Trinity alumni will center on two major objectives,-the The trip is the fourth such mission in serious danger. But do we realize that of the odds. They scored impressive wins Alumni Fund and Reunion in June. Committees are busy calling your attention which the Trinity coach has made for the danger is not merely external in char­ against Wesleyan and Amherst, then went to these opportunities. Your gift to the Alumni Fund means a better education the Army. Last summer he flew to New­ acter; that the g reatest menace is within on to edge Tufts, R3-R1 m an over­ and better facilities for the present generation of Trinity men-your younger foundland, Greenland and Labrador. In ourselves? ... We must lastingly be cer­ time thril ler. brothers. Also, you will feel more than repaid for your trip to Hartford this 1945 he made two separate trips, one to tain that the measures we take to combat The team's performance to date has June if you renew old ties with just one of the dozens of college friends who will the Pacific and one to Central and South our e..xternal foes do not produce the iden­ surprised everyone, including Coach Oost­ be looking for you. America. tical results as would foreign conquest, ing. In pre-season estimates, the outlook Send in your check to the Alumni Fund now;-make it a big one;- and start namely the very Joss of freedom on which was gloomy indeed: graduation had taken right away to plan for that visit to the college on the hill four months hence. this nation was built and on which it has three regulars from last year's team We'll be expecting you. H. T. Barber, '19 flourished. which ended with a record of nine wins Away Sports Schedule "My major concern in regard to freedom and eight losses, this year's club was less In the coming three months Trinity of expression is that unless it is fully experienced and with even less height. teams on the road will represent the Mutschler, Carlough Named protected, consistent with national secu­ As it turned out, the missing factor in Hilltop in no less than five different rity, we will Jose the benefit of the the early es timates was that vital factor of sports. To All-American Soccer Team pioneering spirit, the spirit of experimen­ team play. "The boys are really playing The away schedules, by sports, include: An outstanding sports honor came to tation, of the development of new ideas together- that's what kept us above board varsity basketball-Feb. 6, Middlebury; so far," explains Coach Oosting. Trinity three weeks ago with the an­ New Transcript System ... that we will change our character, Feb. 24, Yale; March 5, Coast Guard. our thinking, our activities, that we will The toughest half of the schedule is yet nouncement that two members of the soc­ Jayvees-Feb. 20, Monson. Freshmen­ lose our faith and courage, that we will cer team had been n,1med All-Americans. Speeds Grade Reports to come, including games with such op­ Feb. 24, Yale; March 5, Coast Guard. Neil S. Mutschler, Rochester, N. Y., The College set a new record· for issu- unconsciously become like those opposing ponents as Vermont, Yale, and Columbia. Varsity swimming- Feb. 13, Worcester ing grade orts ] ast week w u' . .;...· ...,..~~~ But Coa.c.h-Oostiqg's m~.l.rea.t:f.¥.-ar,.e..w..e.IJ senio · a. nd capta;n . •:he .boo.te.rs for the -~e 1t!>h....l-.\L!.!,l;,j.-u_s .,.,i"'"n~th__.e:._.:.c ;..u .::..rr;,.:e:;:.n:..:;t. ,..c:.:o:.::n:;:fl:;:i.;;.ct:;. ..:·~· ~------,---! Tech, 'Feo:--2>£,--=spTingiiclu; ar.- 12-1 ~. plete academic transcripts in the mail Jess "I ·am afraid that we will fall into the on the way to a successful season. past two years, and Winfield A. Carlough, New England Championships at Univer­ than 48 hours after completion of mid- dangerous pit of thought control, into a The yearling cagers also reached the sity of Connecticut. Freshman-Feb. 20, Ramsey, N. ]. senior, were elected to the All-American Erst team by the National semester grading by the Faculty. pattern of thinking that will preclude new halfway mark with a fine record of four Westminster. wins and one Joss, while the jayvees Soccer Coaches' Association. Trinity Staffs of the Dean's and Central Serv- ideas and will stifle future advances .... Varsity squash-Feb. 20, MIT. Fresh­ ices offices of the College, supplemented While we have no more land frontiers to posted three losses and one win. shared with the University of San Fran­ men-Feb. 16, Choate; Feb. 27, Williston. cisco the honor of having two players on by a crew of 12 students, worked over the conquer, we do have frontiers of the Varsity baseball-Mar. 24, George the first eleven, which was chosen from between-semesters weekend recording mind, of the intell ect, of decision. Every Washington; Mar. 25, Catholic University; Swimmers Undefeated over 3,000 eligible players in colleges and more than 4500 grades on master cards effort to confine America to a simple pat­ Mar. 26, George Washington; Mar. 27, At Midyear; Win Three universities throughout the country.