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Volume XLV HARTFORD, CONN., DECEMBER 17, 1947 Number 10

Trinity Support Asked for WSSF Boosters Club to Trinity Basketeers Overwhelm Sponsor Pre-Xmas To Help Needy Students Abroad Williams in Home Debut, 58-36 I Dance This Evening Kitchen Describes Large Crowd Expected I I Ron Watson High Scorer Conditions; Drive Debaters Defeat At Festivities; Pipes Stassen Interviewed As Ephmen Succumb I Begins in January Haverford in Octet to Entertain By "Tdpod" Reporter At State Armory Speaking in Wednesday's Chapel This evening at 8:30 an informal By Bill Wetter service, Mr. Wilmer J. Kitchen asked Opening Battle pre-Christmas dance will be held in At Yale Meeting 1 I Trinity's support in a drive to give Cook Lounge and Hamlin Dining Hall An estimated crowd of 1600 watched Taking the negative side of the On Monday afternoon, December 8, 400,000 students abroad direly needed to help get the vacation off to a flying Trinity bounce back from its defeat question "Should the United States food, clothes, shelter, and hospitaliza­ start. The dance will be sponsored by about one hundred collegiate and pro- by M.I.T. earlier in the week, to romp Adopt Universal Military Training?", tion. Mr. Kitchen, Executive Secre­ the increasingly active Boosters Club. fessional newspaper reporters gath­ over the Ephmen of Williams to the I the Trinity debating team of David tary of the Wedel Student Service Music will be by Ed Lally, his piano e1·ed at the "Yale Daily News" build­ tune of 58 to 36, at the State Armory Rivkin and Samuel Goldstein opened Fund, said that due to crop failures and his orchestra, and refreshments last Saturday night. In their first its season at Trinity Tuesday evening, ing in New Haven to interview a and the end of UNRRA, the food will be served. Mr. Lally's orchestra home game of the season, the Hill­ December 9, with a 2 to 1 victory prospective candidate for the Presi­ I situation was even more critical than is currently playing at a well-known toppers displayed great team work; over Haverford College. before and that this year's quota West Hartford night club. dency of the United States, Harold time after time, passing to a teammate would be raised to one million dollars. On Friday evening, December 12, The admission charge, one dollar E. Stassen. The one time Governor who was in a slightly better position the team represented by David Lam­ for each couple or stag, will be col­ I "The strategic nature of the emer­ of Minnesota paid homage to college to score. Captain Faber was the gency in universities abroad is ob­ bert and Fendell Winston encountered lected at the door. "A capacity crowd students by stating that he was very leader in setting up plays, but every stiffer opposition in its meeting with is expected," said Dance .Committee vious," Mr. Kitchen said. "The war­ glad to perceive the political activity man in the starting line-up set up at ravaged countries need trained, the St. Joseph College team of Pat­ Chairman Kenneth Higginbotham of least one basket for his side. among them. After this, Mr. Stas­ I educated leadership more than ever ricia Kelly and Shirley Selway. How­ Worcester,. Massachusetts. Decora­ Ron Watson, who was the individual before, and we in the United States ever, no points were at stake in this tions are in charge of Lewis Miller of sen added that he would not discuss high scorer for the evening with 14 need friends in these countries who debate, the subject of which was "Is Queens, New York. James Straley of Connecticut Republican politics. The points, put the Blue and Gold in front I are carrying on the same tradition, the Marshall Plan the best plan to Rockville Center, Long Island, is pro- inquisition got underway when a with a free throw in the opening assure world peace?" viding for refreshments. Admissions who have the same common heritage, reporter from the "Yale Daily News" minutes of the game. Trinity was as university students here. If the Trinity, defending the negative, set chairman is Seyward Epps of Somer- never headed. Watson, Pitkin, Mahon, ville, New Jersey, who will sell tickets asked Mr. Stassen his chance for the universities fail, if darkness settles forth as its principal argument the and Faber threw in two-pointers, and I over the world, we shall be alone. point that "Until barriers on trade at the door. David Gottesman of New nod from the G.O.P. Mr. Stassen Pitkin and Ponsalle were good from They must not fail!" and manufacturing are removed and York City is Entertainment Commit- said he "expected" to have about 155 the foul line to run the score up He said that many students and the countries of Europe readjust their tee chairman, and Do~al~ ~hippy of Idelegat es lined up in time for the to 13-4. economic systems, the Marshall Plan Palmerton, Pennsylvama, IS m charge t' t' · J • 8 H Trin remained about ten points professors were returning from con­ of publicity. , na wna1 conven 10n m une, 4 . e I will not work." ahead of the visitors until a few min­ centration camps and the underground An added feature will be the ap- 1 thought that h.ad as a chance The St. Joseph girls, on the other h~ ~ood utes before the end of the half, when to bombed out, gutted buildings, peaunce of the Pipes, renowned as anyone. Th1s tmm~dtately brought ruined dormitories, and empty li­ hand, eloquently contended that the second team entered. Williams campus octet. forth a flurry of questwns on General made six straight points to cut the I braries, to begin anew. He showed "While the war cost us 300 billions, Eisenhower's prospects in the Repub­ I lead to 29-23 at half time. how the fund has helped iu the past the Marshall Plan is based on onl 22 lican race. The reply was that "any Following the intermission, Watson to finance sanatoriums for tuberculars, billion dollars and that the United Dean's Office man qualified is fit to run." Mr. made a foul and Mahon and Ponsalle food canteens to provide a minimum States, in an effort to establish world Registration for the Trinity Term Stassen add d that he would not play I hooped baskets to offset baskets by of 1500 calories per day, and mimeo- peace, must both adopt and foster the will be held soon after the end of second fiddle on the national ticket. Williams. Then Trin began to pull graph machines to supplement prac­ Marshall Plan." the Christmas Vacation. It is, for him, all or nothing at all. away. With Mahon shooting sets, tically non-existent text books. ------In the subject of foreign policy, 1 and Pitkin, Faber and Watson con­ 1 Mr. Stassen expressed the hope that As part of the college's campaign, necting with one handers near the Professor Harrington of Biology "foreign policy will play a small part which will begin after Christmas basket, Trinity built up a 52-33 ad­ in the 1948 campaign." He believed vacation and will be run by the Trin­ vantag . Joe Ponsalle, who was bril­ Department Interviewed by "Tripod" that this country's foreign policy will I ity Commission of the N.S.A., a Signal I liant on defense all night, stole the be one endorsed by both parties. He Corps film depicting conditions in By Hank Perez ball away from the Ephmen several Europe, which won last year's Acad- , Following t':"o years of overse~s favored heavy aid to European ·oun­ duty, Dr. ~arrmgton .retumed to thts tries, but with certain restrictions times in this burst to set up scoring emy Award for documentation, will The life of Dr. Harrington, now an plays for the Hilltoppers. Coach I be shown in the Chemistry Audito- associate professor of Biology at the country :Ia the Med~terranean route attached to materials sent to lands and admrtted the bnght spot of the Costing sent the reserves in again, rium on Wednesday January 14. college, has undoubtedly been a full "experimenting with Socialism." He period to have been "when we sailed and this time they match d the Wil­ ' one. Born in New Hampshire, Dr. did not want strategic materials or into New York's harbor just before liamstown boys point for· point the Harrington attended Bowdoin College manufactured goods shipped to the I Christmas, 1945, even though we all re t of the game. where he received his B.S., the Uni- Soviet Union. He also discussed Mr. had sun-tans on and almost froze to Trinity was successful on 16 out I versity of New Hampshire, wh ere he Vishinsky's remarks about the U.S. AI h 0 1 d death.'' of 26 free throws and 21 out of 68 p a e ts an received an M.S., and Cornell Univer- He agreed with the White House in 1 Upon his return to this country, shots from the floor. On the other 1 Sorority Present sity, where he was given his P h.D. the partition of Palestine. He added to I he went back to Cornell where after hand, Williams was not as accurate in this latter statement (when queried) Minstrelsy Tonight After his graduation from Bow- its shooting. They caged only 14 out doin, Dr. Hanington spent two years satisf~ing the remaining requirements by saying that he did "not believe" of 73 shots and 8 fouls out of 18 tries. On Wednesday evening, December in the insurance business in Rochester, for hts Ph.D., he suffered a relapsde that Mr. Truman ordered the U.S.'s In the preliminary, Trinity's Fresh­ l 17, a minstrel show will be presented New York. He then returned to Bow- resulting from a sickness contracte I stand on Palestine in the hope of hav­ man quintet edged the Abbey School in the Bulkeley High School audito- doin where for two years he served while overseas. ing the Jews of New York City swing five by the score of 41-32. The year­ rium, at 470 Maple Avenue, for the as a teaching fellow in Biology. Dur­ that pivotal state to the Democrats lings built up an 18-2 lead, then the benefit of the Hartford Chapter of the ing the summers of these last two Calendar of Events in next year's national election. l visitor·s rallied. In the closing min­ Connecticut Cancer Society. The show years, Dr. Harrington was the Assist- December 17: Getting back into domestic policies, utes, with the score 28-26, the Munro­ will consist of the combined groups ant Field Director of the Biological 4 :OO-Booste1·s' Club meeting, ook ex-Governor Stassen stated that he men pulled away to put the game on of the Alpha Zeta Chapter of Beta Station at Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. Lounge. endorsed the Taft-Hartley Bill even ice. Fo1· Trinity, Bill Van Lanen con­ 1 Sigma Phi Sorority, consisting of At the University of New Hamp- 8:15--Benefit Minstrel Show, Bulke­ though it contained a few rough spots. tr·olled the rebounds, and Marshall Hartford businesswomen, and the Phi shire, Dr. Harrington served as a ley High School Auditorium. In general, he thought it was "a good ( ontinued on page 3.) Kappa Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi Graduate Assistant in Biology while 8:30-Booster Club's Dance, Cook piece of legislation.'' He refused to Fraternity at Trinity. working for his Master's degree. He Lounge. name any members of his prospective 1 The Fraternity Glee Club will sing spent the first summer as a Biologist December 18: cabinet. Ho also refused to name his several songs, including "Smoke Gets for the New Hampshire State Fish 9:30-4:00 - Massachusetts Mutual possible running mate on the Repub­ 11 1Vy 11 To Be Ready in Your Eyes," "Show Business," and and Game Authority, making a survey Life Insurance Co. Interviews, lican ticket. He said that he, himself, I "Shine on Harvest Moon." Dancing of the watersheds in that state. The Woodward Lounge. was "a liberal" in the hope that he For Press by January numbers will be provided by the following summer he was an assistant 4 :00-Dean Nicholson of North- would be "able to broaden" the G.O.P. The 1948 "Ivy" is now in its last J'oseph S. Ryan dancing school and at the Isle of Shoals Marine Biological eastern University, Senior Inter­ To do this, Mr. Stassen said that he stages of compilation. After Christ­ views, Woodward Lounge. looked for support from the younger I Miss Jane Hart. The Holiday Inn Station. mas vacation, the multi-pictorial Orchestra, led by George Fay, will While working for his Ph.D. at 7 :00-Trinity Flying Club, Seabury generation. pages which will make up this year's play for the show and for dancing Cornell, Dr. Harrington was appointed 34. After· leaving ew Haven, Mr. "Ivy" are to be sent to the printers afterwards. Mr. Stephen Harper, co- an assistant in Comparative Anatomy. 8:00-Sir Alfred Zimmern, Chem­ Stassen plans to make his first tour !or final preparation. This year's I chairman with Mrs. Florence Munson, He was inducted into the armed forces istry Auditorium. of the New England states in Janu­ issue will have a large selection of will act as interlocutor, having Ray- shortly after gaining this position. December 19: ary. His trip will take him to Vermont, pictures, including many informal mond Hale, Miss Betty Coons, Hobart Soon after volunteering for overseas 9:00-6:00 - American Cyanamid ew Hampshire, lassachusetts and shots. A unique cover design by Dave Hiestand, David Bellis, Miss Faye duty in malaria work, Dr. Harrington Co., Senior Interviews, Woodward Rhode Island. If the jaunt is success­ Aldebourgh, who won the cover con­ I Brainard, and Frank Lambert as end- arrived in India via Tasmania. In Lounge. ful, he pfans to come to Hartford, test, will be used. men. The show will also have several India, he was engaged in scientific 7:00 - Faculty Christmas Party, and possibly to Trinity, "sometime Editor Joe Van Why urges all clubs specialty numbers by both groups. su1·vey work as well as actual malaria Cook Lounge. next year, maybe around February and fraternities to be sure that their I Tickets for the show, starting at control. Working his way up through December 20: or March." reports are in before the end of this 8:15, may be purchased in the Dean's the ranks, Dr. Harrington was eventu- 12:20 - Beginning of Christmas The attending Trinity men were week, ince they must be proof-read Office, Jarvis 20, Goodwin 36, Wood- ally made a sergeant and placed in Vacation. Robin Hale, Stephen Harper, Charles and edited before vacation begins. ward 36, and at the door on Wednes- command of a company of three hun­ January 4: Robinson, and Robert Boyle, all mem­ Those who have not made their first 1 day evening. dred men by order of General Stillwell. 5 :00-End of Christmas Vacation. bers of Alpha Delta Phi. down payment may do so in Cook C13.

I December 17, 1947 ~Pa~g~e~T~w~o------~T~H~E~T~R~IN~ITY~~T~R~IP~O~D~------=====:-==-~======-- ~be ~rinitp ~rtpob The First Noel TRINITY COLLEGE, Hartford, Conn. Member Overtones N-ONC-.~ Associated Collegiate Press AND , THROUGH By Bud OvCTton END t.....£;: SS SONG-: Published Weekly throughout the Academic Year by the STUDENTS OL, TRINITY COLLEGE Subscription- $3.00 per Year Student SubscriJ)tion included in the Tuition Fee ------Entered nt Hartlord, Conn., n ~ Ht' cond class matter It is with some smugness that we report our Christ­ February 14, 1947, under the Act o( Mnrch 3, 1 ~ 79 . mas shopping is fini shed, neatly wrapped, and ready Advertisinl' Rates F'urnished on Application The columns of THE TRINI'l'Y TRIPOD arc nt all times open fo r immediate deliver~. La~t week we gathered up to alumni. underg raduates und others fo r the diacua:;ion of matters an inordinately volummous hst and bustled down to of iaier c~t to Trinity men. con ult with ~age-Allen ' s Person~! Shopper, a bright v. EuN~SuA Y, UELElVJBER 17, 1947 voung lady who seems to know JUSt what people are BDlTOR-IN-CHll, f' ~ iving each other this year. _Anyway, she went to Hobert Jr•nkina work and to our immense relief came up with the ASSOCIATE EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR HArold W. Gleason, Jr. Hobert H erbe rt following items, all of which appear to be just what R. Boyle. Editorial Ass is tant Santa Claus ordered. N~: WS BOARD Clinton Wade F.d gnr W. Matthews · Norman Steinfeld To Chaplain O'Grady go forty chapel credits Pill! NEW ~ STAFF the ten we owe him from last year ... Dean Hughes A. Johnson W . Hohin•on D. Nichol110n R. Mullen R. Rocd P. VanMetre gets a large package of pipe clean_ers . . . For the B. Rau B. J t• nklns l!. PerC?; H. llur ko- .J. Coolr· athletic hierarchy we have five copies of that peren. F'EATURE EDITOR George Stowe nially popular book, "Row to Win Fr_iends a~d Influence FEATURE STAFF People" . . . Professor Watters w1ll rece1ve a quick Robert Herbert L c>o nnrd C. O vcr\A'ul hemidemisemiquaver, gift-wrapped . . . For Professor SPORTS EDITOR Richard Avitabile Troxell we have a fine specimen of inter-formational ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR conglomerate accurately aimed and thrown with some )\f . II. Rankin SPORTS STAFF force . . . To Professor Candelet we are sending a J . Wetter R. Blum Elton L. Smith 0. Mitchell life membership in the C.I.O .... Professor Cameron FRATERNI'rY EDITOR gets a lecture on the shortcomings of Ralph Waldo James Scannell lolAKEUP EDITOR REWRITE EDITOR Emerson ... Assistant Dean Joe Clarke will receive Leone! Mitchell L. Stuart-Alexander undergraduate r ecognition for his direction, kindness, ART EDITOR St.anley Rodgero and cooperation in all matters which arise to confound ART STAFF the hapless college student . . . To Bob Bishop we Rory O'Connor Richard Hilliard PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR extend the invitation to join us at some quiet fraternity R. Jones Letters to the Editor party with the promise that he will be home one minute ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR A. Drown after twelve o'clock midnight . . . And to all other BUSINESS MANAGER Dear Sir: Where is the fault? -Is it that we members of the fa.:ulty we pass along wishes for a Peter Detwiler It should be obvious that the J est­ put on plays that have no general CffiCULATION MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGE!l. prosperous New Year. J ohn MacKeOBon Robert Dowden ers cannot put on plays without the interest? I think not. "Golden Boy", For Wesleyan University we have a medium-si zed CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT students of Trinity behind us. We are "Dear Ruth", "Jacobowsky and the Donald Farrow• r.. MiliH John MacKcsson atom bomb, F.O.B. Oak Ridge, which is to be placed ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT not self-sufficient, and the money we Colonel", and "The Masque of Kings" near some strategic spot on the Wes campus, prefer· Richud Kichline James Scannell receive from the college is some­ rather run the gamut, with comedy J ohn Lovell John McGaw ably under orm Daniels . .. To the Wesleyan "Argus," what to the windward of lavish. both above and below the navel, that institution's semi-weekly paper, we extend our pathos and (because we are young Without the students' support we are condolences ... To the Williams "Record" goes com­ The Spirit of Christmas and our authors are not God) bathos, nothing. mendation for being the best college paper we've run We are all aware that as egg-rolling is not the We are a small college and, con­ tragedy and farce. True, we have put across. genius of Eastcriide, so the spirit of Christmas is not on neither burlesque nor Passion sequently, should be in a better posi­ For all student dispensers of chapel credits working exhausted in the perfunctory exchange of greeting tion than Princeton, for example, in plays. Perhaps that is our salvation. under the aegis of Chaplain O'Grady we have season cards. We believe, on the contrary, that the essence the matter of unity. There should be a If the students here at college tickets to mid-nite shows at Boston's Old Howard of this season is distilled in a momentary revolt from pride inherent in the student body would tell us what they would like theater ... To the Trinity Senate goes a giant-sized the pride and penury of daily life; observing tradition, that would urge it, as a man, to go to see, we will set it to production Good Conduct ribbon ... Red Faber and Ted Lockwood we revel for a day in ~:nacc u sto m ed joy and benevolence. and see their Jesters perform, as instantly. But if nobody gives a pamn r~~,,.~ gent\~ p~t'i> on the back for student leader~\\i\\ e are stm w1·ong. well as their football players ana at all, we~u just iola our flats ana . .. The record of the Medusa Society leads us to "There is a plausible heresy," writes Cardinal things of that ilk. I fear that I can­ steal softly down to the Heublein. suspect that its members have yet to meet one another. Spellman, "that conceives religion as service to · one's not accept as valid the theory that We can always find half the college Therefore, we propose to hold an afternoon tea party fellow man. But teachers and prophets of this doctrine our productions are so intolerable as there, and a much more enthusiastic forget . . . the primary and fundamental basis of to send the audience dashing to the audience. where formal introductions will be effected .. . To the this charity must be the love of God." Like his divine coatroom after the first act. If we The most unkindest cut of all came pretty young ladies in the office we present our tele­ master, the Archbishop distinguishes between religious are that ungodly bad then the drama when we tried to sell a ticket to a phone number . . . And to all students and janitorial sentiment and humanistic sentimentality, between the critics all have lovely pointed heads, fellow who refused, stating that he w9rkers we extend our slickest Christmas blessing. qualities of being like little children and of childish­ and the enthusiasm of our small au­ was saving his money to see The ness. Indirectly, he shows us our misinterpretation diences was brought about either by Mark Twain Masquers the following ·of Christmas: that good will for its own sake is un­ the same sweet reason or by a delight­ week. The grass is always greene'r founded in reality and thus meaningless. ful all-encompassing hypocrisy. Those etc. eh? Gleason's We might do well this Christmas to regard Christ's who see our plays are enthusiastic. Yours till the deluge. birthday as His apostles regard it, as a feast of the "The Masque of Kings" fared as well unspeakable miracle of the Incarnation. In this way as, perhaps better than, the others. EDWARD F. ALBEE. Reasons it is possible that the tributary impulses of universal By Winky Gleason fraternity may become more convincing to us, and more lasting. In thus testing the old but untried spirit of Christmas we may also find realism in the sequence POWER POLITICS DEPARTMENT: Ordinarily, we of the angelic salutation of antiquity, "Glory be to Musical Notes don't dabble in political problems, leaving their able God on high, and on earth peace to men of good will." adjudication to the guy upstairs. We do feel evoked H. W. G., Jr. By George Stowe to register our praise for the new City Charter Plan of Hartford, however. We'll admit we never gave it Time for Revision Hans Kindler and his National seemed to feel the same affection for enough credit and thus were really put to shame by Readers of the ew Yorker's blithe columns may Symphony, one of the youngest of it. It was performed with an ampli­ the appearance of these sub-heads in a Courant account have been surprised recently to discover from an inter­ of the blizzard a w~ek ago: our major orchestras, returned to the tude of breadth and sonority. view with Albert Einstein that he is an ardent reader The youthful Mozart was repre­ MAN FOUND DEAD AT WHEEL OF AUTO Bushnell last week and treated us of the Classics. Asked if despair of the apparent sented by his Symphony No 29 in A Returns to Nor mal About 8 P.M. irresponsibility of modern science had driven him back not only to the standard fare (Bach, Major, which is full of light-hearted THROUGH THE MIXOSCOPE DEPARTMENT: to the Greeks, the Professor replied, "But I have never Mozart, and Tschaikowsky) and a grace. But for us the modern orches­ Rantipole wrote a paper for Philosophy 12 on Sunday, gone away from them. How can an educated person Hartford premiere (Philip Henry's tra somehow seems ungainly for choosing as his subject "Why is swimming pool water stay away from the G1·eeks? I have always been far "Pacific Nocturne") but to a curtain such early Mozart works as this, blue?" For this task he interviewed Mr. Emery Roth­ more interested in them than in science." speech as well. which is thinly orchestrated (it was a user of the College Maintenance Staff, who has kindly Einstein s love of the Classics is probably even Concertgoers in Hartford have long written fro: strings, two oboes, and permitted us to use the carbon transcript. Mr. rarer among today'.:; students of science than his since realized the futility of calling two horns. ) Per haps for this reason Rothauser is a native of Hungary, having come ~ mathematical acume'l. Yet they have never been more for encores from an:sr of the more il­ modern conductors have a tendency Hartford in 1907. After considerable experience m in need of Hellenic wisdom; the wild stallion of scientific lustrious "name" orchestras; it seems to stress the dynamic approach in the heating profession, he came to work at Trinity in progress has long <;ince broken free of its supposed to be considered an outmoded custom. playing Mozart, rather than empha­ 1923. One day in 1929, while busy on the football masters. The Greeks, who by theit unequalled genius A sole exception is made with the sizing grace and fluidity. Kindler was field, he was approached by President Ogilby, who gave for integrating all man's interests through their art, ational Symphony, which usually certainly no exception. him a bunch of keys pointed across the meadows to literature and philosophy succeeded best in preserving succumbs to popular demand. (Last The Nocturne was an impression­ the shmy· new Trowbridge' Memorial, and sa1d,· "It's. the unity and intelligence of human affairs, have been year it was Wagner's "Traume"). istic piece in the style of Debussy and all yours, Emery." Although it has been his special obscured behind radioactive clouds. This year it was a speech from Con­ was evocative of tranquil and limit­ charge ever since, he has only capitalized by actuallY Trinity students are fortunate in having an ductor Kindler, reminding the audi­ less ocean and of far-off, exotic swimming in the pool once, says Mr. Rothauser, ~e­ opportunity to be oriented to their own civilization by ence that this was a milestone-the places. The orchestra gave it the means of studying the synthesis of knowledge dis­ spite Joe Clarke's persistent efforts to make hun thirteenth hundredth concert by this most sensitive playing of the evening. amphibious. covered by the ancients. Classical Humanities 1, in sixteen year old group-certainly For the melodists there was After this biography, Rantipole honed his pencil, which Greek and Roman masterpieces are read and irrefutable testimony of an increas­ Tschaikowsy's Fourth, which some­ opened hIS. mouth, and was quickly relieved to d'1sc 0ver discussed in English, seems to fi ll an acute need in ingly musical America. one once had the temerity to call "the ~hat aquamarine isn't the natural hue for Adam's 8 ~ this inchoate Atomic Age. Combining dogma with The evening began auspiciously world's noisiest symphony." Whether m Hartford. The Capri touch in the pool water delight, the Classics offer clear and universal answers with the Sinfonia from the Cantata or not it deserves that epithet, it was supplied by two chemicals soda acid which modulates to important questions science no longer considers: No. 29 by Bach, arranged for orches­ given a noisy-if uneven-performance. the alkilinity of the tile-iined estu~ry, and alum, 8 life and death, war and pe~e, man's own soul and tra by Doctor Kindler. The theme of Erratic tempi were especially notable substance notorious for sieving impurities when theY its relation to society. Science students who wish to this work was evidently one of Bach's in the first movement. Things did im­ reach the intake filters. Another, colorless elixir cast give meaning and purpose and morality to their voca­ favorites (he used it in his E Major prove as. time went on, though, and upon the waters in daily doses of pounds is chlorine, tion will do well to look thus to the Classics, and avoid Partita for violin and in his Wed­ all seemed to be forgiven in the 114 the alternative necessity to resign from the human race. ding Cantata) and the genial Doctor tumult of a Fourth of July finish. that well-known purifier and eyeball-irritant. (Continued on page 4.) !December 17, 1947 THE TRINITY TRIPOD Page Three

I · F. w· Tnn 1ve 1ns Hilltopper Cage Squad ICrows In Basketball \ I (Continued from page 1.) Drops Initial Contest ToM. I. T. by 42 to 40 Lead; Three-Way Tie Dudley was high scorer on the strength on Parade of the four baskets he caged. Ed By 0\1 en Mitchell In National League Sports Ludorf and Bob Sharp each garnered In a rugged, hard-fought contest the I By Mar. hall Rankin l By Dick Avitabile 7 points and Van Lanen 6. Abbey's Trinity College basketball team was Competition in the intramural bas- I McC. arty was the high scorer for the defeated by an aggressive M.I.T. five k~tball leagues got under way this game with 13 points. last Wednesday night 42 to 40. Poor I past week. Alpha Chi Rho leads the shooting from the field was mainly American with two wins and no losses, BOX SCORE responsible for the Hilltoppers' dis­ while Sigma Nu, Rioteers, and Psi U. After an "off season" of almost four weeks, Trinity's athletic program P appointing showing in their initial I Trinity B F are tied for the lead in the ational. is again swinging into high gear with the spotlight fixed on Ray Oosting's Pitkin. If 3 4 10 encounter of the season. Here are results of play to date: varsity basketball team. ... 1 0 I Dabrowski ~ The visitors led almost all the way watson, rf 6 4 1 American League As we all know, the Hilltoppers opened their season on a rather sour Boland . · 1 0 2 until tne last two minutes when, after Hotchkiss 0 0 D.K.E. 29, J. Sox 23. Kenyon led I note, bowing to a determined l\1.I.T. five in the last two minutes of play, Faber, c 4 1 g Red Faber was forced to leave on per­ the Deke attack with 10 markers, 42 to 40. Last Saturday, however, the Trinity Cagemen came roaring back . . . . 0 ll.lrninard .. 1 ~ sonal fouls, the Bostonians seized Ponsalle, h< 2 3 Tansill following with 6. For the to trample a sub-par Williams squad by the lopsided margin of 58 to 36 at Leahey 1 0 2 control of the situation just in time Mahon. rg 4 1 9 losers, Grenhart had 6 and Ricci 5. the Hartford Armory. In both of these contests the local hoopsters exhibited cully 0 2 2 to net their third consecutive triumph A)pha Chi Rho 27, Yankees 18. an amazing ability to net foul shots. Captain Red Faber set a new record of the campaign. The Crows looked impressive in their for accuracy in this department when he tossed in ten consecutive free shots 2 1 16 68 R ay Oosting's hoopsters got off to a victory over the Yankees, one of the in as many attempts in the M.I.T. game. The Trinity aggregation as a Williams B F p fast start, and maintained a fairly two new neutral teams in the league whole has · now sunk thirty-six in fifty tries, a pretty fair average. The I Page, rg . . 1 1 3 steady pace throughout to take a 29- Kaufman .. 0 1 1 this year. Blythe and Eblen led the poor field shooting which was mainly responsible for our initial setback Bush. lg . · 1 0 2 24 lead at the half. Trinity's team victors' attack. seemed to be greatly improved in the Williams encounter. Ron Watson Brownell, c ...... 3 0 Widem an, rf 1 8 ~ play began to lag during the second Alpha Chi Rho 33, D.K.E. 27. The paced the victors' attack by amassing a total of fourteen points, while most Johnston . . 0 1 1 half, however, and the alert Engi- .. 4 Crows came back to take their sec- of the Hilltoppers' other scoring was evenly distributed among the othE~r I Oitmat, I! 0 8 Mason . 4 2 10 neers, led by the sparkling play of ond straight contest, as Eblen came starters. Jack Mahon did exceptionally well on long set-shots, throwing in Madden and Deutsch, were quick to 14 8 86 through with 11 points and Barrows four from as great a distance as half the length of the court. seize the initiative. 8. Tansill was high scorer for the Despite their good showing against the Ephmen, it is difficult to know The only bright light from the Trin­ Dekes with 8. what to expect from the Bantams this year. Williams did not supply an ity point of view was the brilliant J. Sox 36, Delta Psi 15. The J. Sox adequate test; the Purplemen, who looked like anything but a good college foul shooting by Red Faber and completely crushed the St. Anthony basketball team, offered very little opposition. Ronny Watson. On the whole, the combine. Van Loon was the big wheel · I Oosting's Men Will team made 20 out of 24 free throws. for the J. Sox. Injured Wesleyan Player In Nce

. eek the entertainment be assured Rantipole. For exampJ Wilson felt that the time had come I party this. w d' tb careful guid- ~ there was the scramble when the ' a~ for them to concentrate on the ever- for which IS un erG e ge Wittman. Department heard that the POOl' Down Fraternity Row R d of Pledge eor . s present prob~em ~f study. And to o ance Phi Basketball Team wartime temperature w~s 74 degrees Alpha Chi Rho congratulates its Sigma Nu won its first basketball and the "B1g F1ve", I am glad to The Delta f d with lanky Ron and sent telegrams ordermg it hoisted Basketball team for their excellent game last week by defeating the hear that Lassie. has finally come (not to be ~~~e~se the tutelage of to 80 degrees by the next watch. performance against DKE on Thurs- Common:; Club 67 to 20. Brother Cy home. The question of how many Watson), rt its first two And finally, Mr. Rothauser certifi d 1 1 day-score, 33-27. Brothers Barrows, Seymour was the high scorer, with birthdays Bill Kea~y will have during Brother ~a~ue::enst~y ranks fourth in he's still working on a mystery wh~h Eblen, Piastro, and Blythe were out- Bill Coughlin and John Noonan also the course of th1s year has even ga~es an appeared last week while he her- the1r league. . . was standing throughout the game. Over starring. The Chapter wishes to an­ stumped sue h expel'l t s as "F'ts makmg a routme water purity ch k· the week-end our third floor re- nounce the cancellation of tts annual man" Blake and "Papa" Winston. a pile of twenty-four pennies ca:~ed ceived a much needed facelifting, hristmas open-house due to the Delta Phi is pleased to announce &Ieason under the diving-board, two fathom a Ia paint, sweat, and cheers of all twelve o'clock curfevy, which etrec­ the recent pledging of John G.ais- (Continued from page 2.) deep. He frankly didn't think muc~ concerned. A Smith week-end called tively removes all pa1 ties that follow ford. The House has really acqu1red One would think that supervising of Rantipole's suggestion that the Brothers Lovell and Berger just in basketball games to places other than the spirit of the season; through the · had been tossed in by a nears'ghtedy d germ-proof palace like the swim- 1 time. Brother "Ever tardy" is def- the college. On Saturday evening the efforts of Brothers Hadley an a . . in could get pretty St. A who thought he was back in initely not our Great S. . . . E .... , fall alumni dinner and business meet- Nourse, we have a gaily decorated mmg pool b~l~ J r Rothauser says Bermuda ... but he'll consider it aU from now on, he says. ing will take place at the house. and lighted Christmas tree. Everyone monotonou~, u · . d in the same. 0 Delta Kappa Epsilon spent a busy is looking forward to the Christmas not. There s always somethmg g, ' -----.--~-.-.------Iweek in preparation for the coming . There IS No Wattmg at the Xmas vacation, and, of course, in Ladies' and Gents' Barber Shop studying for those final pre-Christ- THREE BARBERS mas exams. Even ol' John "no-car" Armstrong and Bill "I'm a painter" 1122 BROAD STREET HARTFORD CONN. CHRISTMAS CARDS Fine Spaghetti and Italian Food Come In and See Our Fine Selection at the THE GREETING SHOP SPAGHETTI PALACE 260 Trumbull Street (Between Pratt and Church) 159 Asylum Street - Hartford When You Wont BALOW IN-STEWART FLOWERS ELECTRICAL CO. Call on ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS KENNETH T. MACKAY IN DUSTRIAL WORK OUR SPECIALTY HOTEL BOND 7-1157 222 Pearl Street Hartford An Alumnus of Your Old Rival Hamilton College Telephone 2-7275 Telephone 6-3795 PROFESSIONAL BARBER SHOP SEVEN CHAIRS HEUBLEIN MANICURE J . Marzano and P. Marion, Props. HOTEL 59 High Street Hartford "I FIND CHESTERFIELDS ;i\t\~~~~~~~~~~~ GIVE ME THE MOST

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