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From the Archives The new David S.
Ingalls hockey rink out on Prospect Street is coming along. Because of its striking
structure, the rink is referred to as "the roller coaster," "the
pregnant whale," and "the turtle." These somewhat irreverent names
have not bothered architect Eero Saarinen who said in a recent edition of the
Hockey Newsletter: "What intrigues me most is to imagine archeologists 5,000
years from now digging in New Haven and first coming across prehistoric bones
in the Peabody Museum and then not so far away from there finding this huge dinosaur-like
skeleton. What kind of history will they reconstruct about what formidable creatures
Yale men were in the mid-20th century?"
There are enough
laughs at Yale to cool many a teapot. For instance, there's the story of an undergraduate
last year who nailed two holes in his wall in order to put up some pictures close
together. An agent of the service bureau, however, one day informed the student
that he'd be fined $3 for each hole. When the indignant student calmed down, he
made it a point to be quite certain that the bureau charged a flat rate, regardless
of the hole. He then cheerfully took a nearby axe, chipped out the area between
the holes, paid the flabbergasted agent $3, and resolutely returned to his work.
Right here one
must pay tribute to the foresight of the Silliman College designers. Its rooms
contain plugs to be used for television sets.
A short time ago
I read an article written by Mr. Edwin A. Abbey, in which attention is called
to the crying need of an American art school possessing a complete set of dormitories.
The terrible conditions and hardships under which students must live in Paris
are vividly described by the writer, who adds that there is no reason why, in
the very near future, as good work can not be done in America as in France. I
am a lawyer by profession and know nothing about art. I am, however, very much
impressed by the logic of Mr. Abbey's article. Is it not possible for the Yale
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Alumni Magazine, PO Box 1905, New Haven, CT 06509-1905. USA.
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