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editorialsField Day Gone?

"What policy, concerning Field Day, can the AthleticAssociation formulate which will serve the best interests ofathletics in general?" This is the question which Daniel J.Holland '58, president of the Athletic Association, askedof the members before the meeting where the Field Daysports were abolished.

The question which arises is whether the Athletic Asso-ciation should consider the best interests of athletics per seor the best interests of the student body as related to ath-letics. It should be realized the Athletic Association did notconsider several points that their decision involves.

Interclass sports constitute a major portion of the FieldDay events and without these events Field Day will at bestremain as an uninteresting tradition. The Athletic Associa-tion, an organization composed of team captains and teammanagers appointed by the Athletic Association, has some-thing else than the interest of the entire MIT student bodyas their motivation.

In the past few years there has been a change in the atti-tude toward hazing, the need for orientation and the devel-opment of loyalty ties. The 1955-56 Institute Committee,the one which originally abolished hazing, commented onField Day saying that it should "remain as an interclassAthletic Contest and that the Athletic Association work incoordination with the Junior Prom Committee to study thefuture emphasis of Field Day."

It is realized that with the abolition of hazing there is aneed for some form of spirit building competition. Withthe removal of athletics from the Field Day program thereis only a void. The importance of Field Day cannot be over-stressed with respect to class spirit and as a partial aid tothe replacement of hazing. And it is realized that the ath-letic contests are an integral part of Field Day.

It is hoped that Institute Committee will reconsider theField Day ruling in the light of usefulness to the wholeof the MIT student body and not the intercollegiate ath-letes, as the Athletic Association has done.

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In the first place, we want a chance to play next year,Secondly, we are disappointed that the Athletic Associa-

tion, of all organizations, would take such a step towardmaking the Institute a one-sided technical school. The two

Field Day football teams give more fellows a chance toparticipate than any other sport, with the exceptions oflacrosse and soccer. Interest was certainly low last year. Our

team had a roster of over twenty-five; the sophomores, veryfew less.

Certainly it is disappointing to quit a game you loveafter two years, but we unanimously agree that we wouldrather play two years than none at all. The Athletic Asso-ciation lauds varsity competition as the only worthwhilegoal of a freshman or sophomore athlete-all we want iscompetition.

A professional coach would be a definite asset to ourteams and would cost money. However. the A.A. seems tofind money to provide coaching for such sports as fencingand weightlifting, which are enjoyed by fewer people than

,ootball.The Athletic Association contends that huge sums of

money would be necessary for feld lighting and fancyequipment. These things would be fine, but they aren'tnecessary. Our equipment last year was certainily adequate,and, in most cases, better than that which we had in highschool.

In short, then, we urge the Athletic Association to re-consider and reinstate Field Day football.

Sincerely,Chuck Conn,

Captain, Freshman Football TeamI_

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To the Editorial Chairman, The Tech:The abolition of Field Day football has caused a great

deal of discontent among the players of last year's freshmanteam.

flake' the cfou,,e axeda &~.5teorNzTake, for example, the course called B.M.S. (Basic

Motor Skills). B.M.S. was divided into L.D. (LyingDown), S.U. (Standing Up) and W. (Walking). Oncethe student had mastered L.D. and S.U., she was taughtto W.-but not just to W. any old way! No, sir! Shewas taught to W. with poise, dignity, bearing ! To incul-cate a sense of balance in the girl, she began her exercisesby walking with a suitcase in each hand. (One girl, MaryEllen Dorgenicht, got so good at it that today she is bellcaptain at the Dinkler-Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.)

When the girls had walking under their belts, theywere allowed to dance. Again no formality was imposed.They were simply told to fling themselves about in anyway their impulses dictated, and believe you me, it waisquite an impressive sight to see them go bounding intothe woods with their togas flying. (Several later joinedthe U. S. Forestry Service. )

There was also a lot of finger painting and gourdrattling and sculpture with coat hangers and all like that,

and soon the fresh wind of Progressivism came whistlingout of Gransmire to blow the ancient dust of pedantryoff curricula everywhere, and today, thanks to the pio-neers at Gransmire, we are all free, every man-jack of us.

If you are ever in New Hampshire, be sure to visitthe Gransmire carnpus. It is now a tannery.

(Max Shulman, 1957

And be sure to light a Philip Morris when you visit Gransmtire,or anywhere else for that matter, because Philip Morris isalhays a naturally perfect companion and brings you thiscolumn each week and is ignitable at either end.

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7The Tech calendar of eventsWEDNESDAY, MAY 1

Operations Research. Special seminar on the Ap-plicability of Operations Research to Fire-fighting.Guest speakers: Leo Driscoll, Chief, Boston FireDepartment, Warren Kimball, National Fire Protec-tion Association. ROOM 2-333, 3:00 p.m.Electrical Engineering Department. Colloquium:"Communication Theory-Mulfipath." Dr. Paul E.Green, Jr., and Dr. Robert Price of CommunicationsTechniques Group, Lincoln Laboratory. Refresh-ments will be served in Room 10-280 at 4:30 p.m.

ROOM 10-250, 3:30 p.m.Civil and Sanitary Engineering Department. Hydro-mechanics Seminar: "Resistance of Discs Rotatingwithin Cylindrical Casings." Professor Ronald E.Nece, Civil and Sanitary Engineering Department.Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m.

ROOM 48-208, 4:00-5:00 p.m.Technology Catholic Club. First of two lectures onmarriage: "The Nature of Marriage." The Rev.Walter Gouch, Catholic chaplain at Brandeis Uni-versity. ROOM 2-190, 5:00 p.m.Baptist Student Union and Inter-Varsity ChristianFellowship. Joint meeting. Speaker: Dr. Enoch, Pres-ident, Union of Evangelical Students of India.

ROOM 10-280, 7:00 p.m.Chemistry Department. Harvard-MIT. PhysicalChemistry Co!loquium: "A Statistical Theory ofChemical Rate Processes." Dr. James Keck, of AvcoResearch Laboratory. ROOM 6-120, 8:00) p.m.

THURSDAY, MAY 2Nuclear Engineering. Seminar. Albert Reynolds (G).

FACULTY CLUB PENTHOUSE, 1-2 p.m.Freshman Baseball Team. Game with Newton JuniorCollege. BRIGCGS FIELD, 3:30 p.m.Physics Department. Colloquium: "Direct Observa-tion of Dislocations in Silicon." Dr. William C. Dash,of General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

ROOM 6-1 20, 4:00 p.m.Mathematics Department. Harvard-MIT. JointMathematics Colloquium: "Lie Algebras of Char-acteristic p." Professor Irving Kaplansky of PrincetonUniversity. Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.ROOM 18, 2 DIVINITY AVE., HARVARD, 4:30 p.m.Phi Lambda Upsilon. Lecture: "Antibiotics From aChemical Viewpoint." Professor John C. Sheehan,Chemistry Department. Coffee hour will follow inRoom 6-321. ROOM 6-120, 8:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, MAY 3Freshman Golf Team. Match with Lawrence Acad-emy. OAKLEY COUNTRY CLUB, 2:00 p.m.Varsity LaCrosse Team. Game with Amherst Col-lege. BRIGoGS FIELD, 3:00 p.m.Mechanical Engireering Department. Seminar:"Analysis of Non-Linear Servomechanisms." Mr.G. W. Meisenholder, Mechanical Engineering De-partmenf. Coffee will be served in Room 3-174 from3:00-3:30 p.m. ROOM 3-270, 3:30 p.m.

Varsity Tennis Team. Match with Rensselaer Poly-technic Institute.

BURTON HOUSE COURTS, 3:30 p.m.Lecture Series Committee. Film: "The Prisoner,"with Alec Guinness. Admission: 30 cents.

KRESGE AUDITORIUM, 5:45, 7:30, 9:45 p.m.Dormitory Weekend. Semi-formal dance. Music byHerby Wayne and his Band.

BAKER HOUSE DINING HALL,9:00-12:00 midnight

IFC Weekend. Formal Dance, with Pat Dorn andhis Orchestra. HOTEL STATLER, 9 p.m.-I a.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 4MIT Outing Club. Bicycle trip to Martha's Vine-yard. Sign up on Building 2 bulletin board.

WALKER MEMORIAL, 7:30 a.m.Dormitory Weekend. Jazz concert. Jerry Davis andhis Band will present the history of Jazz and Dixie-la nd. BAKER HOUSE, 3:00 p.m.Heavyweight Crew. Compton Cup Race with Har-vard and Princeton. (Boston University and Dart-mouth as added starters.)

CHARLES RIVER, 5:00 p.m.Dormitory Weekend. Formal Dance, with JerryDavis and his Band.

BAKER HOUSE DINING HALL,8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

SUNDAY, M AY 5MIT Outing Club. Spring Circus: Hiking, biking,

canoeing, and rock climbing. Sign up on Building 2bulletin board.

WALKER MEMORIAL STEPS, i0:00 a.m.MIT Musical Clubs. Plaza Concert by MIT ConcertBand, conducted by John Corley. Program will in-'

clude several well-known works by Texidor, Mooreand Sielmeisfor, and will feature a new Suite forBand, "Memoirs," by Morton J. Achter '59. Ad-mission free. KRESGE PLAZA, 3:00 p.m.Tech Night at the Pops. Program by the Boston PopsOrchestra, the MIT Glee Club, and the MIT Loga-

ryfhms. Tickets on sale from II a.m. to 4 p.m. inthe Lobby of Building 10 through May 3. Send mailorders to Room 14-N236, MIT, or call extension2902. Prices: $2.50 per table seat (five to a table);

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SYMPHONY HALL, 8:30 p.m.CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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THE THUNDERING MARCH

OF PROGRESS

Today, as everyone knows, is the forty-sixth anni-versary of the founding of Gransmire College for Womenwhich, as everyone knows, was the first ProgressiveEducation college in the United States.

Well do I recollect the tizzy in the academic worldwhen Gransmire first opened its portals! What a buzzthere was, what a brouhaha in faculty common rooms,what a rattling of teacups, when Dr. Agnes Thudd Siga-foos, first president of Gransmire, lifted her shaggy headand announced defiantly, "This here is no stuffy, old-fashioned college. This here, by gum, is ProgressiveEducation. We will teach'the student, not the course.There will be no marks, no exams, no requirements. Wewill break the iron mold of orthodoxy, hey."

Well sir, forward-looking maidens all over the countrycast off their fetters and came rushing to New Hampshireto enroll at Gransmire. Here they found freedom. Theybroadened their vistas. They lengthened their horizons.They unstopped their bottled personalities. They roamedthe campus in togas, leading ocelots on leashes.

And, of course, they smoked Philip Morris. (I say"of course." Why do I say "of course" ? I say "of course"because it is a matter of course that anyone in searchof freedom should naturally turn to Philip Morris, forPhilip Morris is a natural smoke, with no filter to getin the way of its true tobacco taste.)

But all was not Philip Morris and ocelots. There waswork and study too- not in the ordinary sense, for therewere no formal classes. Instead there was a broadapproach to enlarging each girl's potentials.

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ested in watching television for anypurpose other than that of commonentertainment. In an educational me-dium a prlogram can be consideredsuccessful if even a small number ofpeople gain an insight, a value, oran understanding which they did notpreviously have.

MIT has currently three regularseries, Science Reporter, Weath.er forYou, and Brain Ticklers broadcastover WGBH-TV. In the words ofVolta Tollrrey, Television Director,"We concentrate on quality, not con-ventional entertainment value, andthough we hope to gradually acquirea more responsive audience, we willnever be successful in the spectacu-lar fashion demanded by ordinarycommercial stations." The station'sgoal of steeling clear of programsvoid of educational value both makestheir budget extremely low for theyear it runs less than did the costof the single Rodgers-Hammersteinproduction of Cinderella- and, saysMr. Torrey, "allows them to try pro-grams that simply aren't feasible fora commercial station, but which defi-nitely do have a value in terms oftheir purpose." Some ideas of thestation's success may be derived fromthe fact that those of the MIT fac-ulty who have participated in theprograms have been, according to Mr.Torrey, "eager to assist and remark-ably cooperative thereby indicatingthat they do feel that the prograamand their airns are valuable."

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E States. Another facet of the sta-'s operations, extremely clritical, educat"ional television station, is

efact that it operates on the VHFMd, channels two to thirteen, and

be seen on all conventional re-verS. Many educational stations

:J: -nthe VHF band, for which re-

Vers require a special adapter. ThepOlt and value of what WGBH-TV

' transmit to the community is!ccs greatly magnified by the fact

itat the station can potentially weachj estimated 9290 of the sets within

its range, an audience of some mil-lion and a quarter homes within a ra-dius of 60 miles from the tlransmit-ter on Great Blue Hills in Milton.

After the first two years of opelra-tion, it is difficult to assay the extentto which these stated aims have beenrealized. First of all, the standardsby- which the success of the stationis judged are different from those ofan ordinary station. That is, thoughsuccess would be greater if more peo-ple watched the programs, the sta-tion realized that there is a certainlimit to the audience which is inter-

Johnny, two visitors to the MIT Open House, Saturday, re-discover thethe basement of building ton. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. Laurence B.East Street, Hingham. Mr. Stein is Class of '34.

Debbie andtelephone inStein of 374

~,baffery of television cameras "takes five." The technical facilities of WGBH-TV compare

fhorably with those of "commercial" stations, but program budgets are much smaller.5ere are no "spe-taculars"' often the biggest prop is a blackboard.

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Scene: The London drawtingroom of Professor MlloriarityKitchener, philologist and elocu-tionist. As curtain rises, Kit-chener is sinying and dancing.

Kitchener: Why can't the Eng-lishl learn how to speak? He,?,Why can't a woman be like aman? What? Why can't any-body grow accustomed to myface? So?

Enter Gatshy Donothing, achimney sweep.

Donothing: P'arn me. Perfi-zer K, oi wN'd loik tao lorn 'owdo spike e'en batterwise thunoi spike naow.

Kitchener: Ugh! (Aside) Yet,he's a challenge. (To l)onoth-i.n9) All right. loathsome, insix weeks, you'll be speakingweii enough to go to the Coro-nation Ball!

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Donothing: Sao, Prayfooser K,can yez thank what nme sp)ikesgentmanly aynuf naow?' Dowe be gung to Coronation Balltowgefdder?

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eat Out Navyfourth score came on a 30-yard runby Joe Antebi, G, who took the ballfrom a line-out and picked his waythlrough the entire Navy team for thetry. McDavitt convelrted for a 16-0score.

The final score was made on a finepassing attack by John McDaniel, G,Doug Lang, and Garrett Cochran, G.The play covelred 70 yards withCochran carrying the final 40 yards.McDavitt converted for the final 21-0score.

Tom Hamilton, an ex-Dartmouthrugby star, kept the Wvashington teamout of trouble with his fine kicking,fielding and playmaking. On thewhole, however, the Navy boys dem-onstrated that rugby is a sport thatrequires more practice and experiencethan they were prepared to presentlast Saturday before the MIT audi-ence. Congratulations must go toTech coach Mike Hough for the coor-dinated effort that our rugbyers dis-played on Briggs during the contest.

The MIT Rugby Club has two re-maining games at home. One withHarvard on May 4, and another withNew York on the 18th of that month.

Rugbyers BeThe Rugby Club provided Tech

with its only big sport win on Satur-day, as the Techmen trounced a fight-ing but inexperienced US Navy teamfrom Washington, D. C., 21-0. Withsome of the finest rugby seen onBriggs Field since the beginning ofthe club in 1947, the MIT team scor-ed five tries and convelrted threetimes. The filrst try was made by PeteMcDavitt, G, midway thlrough thefirst half and climaxed a rush by theMIT forwards. Chuck Henry, G, setup the second score with a 30-yardrun to the 5-yard line where he wastackled. However, Doug Lang '57,trailing the play picked up the balland took it over for the try. LenBrowm, G, converted and MIT led atthe half by a 8-0 score.

The next two scores came as theresult of the MIT forwards rushingthe Washington team off its feet.Starting from the 35-ya'd line theforwards took the ball at their feet,soccer style. Pete McDavitt retrievedthe ball and carried close to theWashington goal line where he pass-ed off to Rich Simons '59, who bulledhis way over for the try. The try wasunconverted and 3IT led 11-0. The

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iOnce upon a time (which is the way most stories begin--and who's

to argue with success?) there was an argument about some do-it-yourselfvenison ... and a nice nobleman became a good Hood.

Trading charcoal gray for Lincoln Green wasn't edsy-Robin had a

good thing working for him before he started tramping the woods.

But, with a philosophical sigh, he gathered a crew called the, Merry

Men, and began "exacting tribute" from tyrannical King John. Actually,

he was stealing the old boy blind . . . but King John was pretty much

of a crumb, and most of the loot went to the poor, so nobody reallycared. Besides-the Sheriff of Nottingham couldn't catch Robin!

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"What's for lunch, Robbie?" inquired Marian. "Cream of Nowhere,Doll," replied R. H. "Have a bowl?"

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that? Marian became Mrs. Hood ... and Robin? He hung up his bow

and arrows and is now the Budweiser salesman for Sherwood andpoints north. (Sometimes, he points south.)

MORAL: Venison or hamburgers. . . spark up your next meal

with the merry taste of the King of Beers!

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kch Nine Battles

!owdoinaAnd Colby'st week the MIT Baseball Team

unsuccessful in two attempts toits first victory. Briggs Field

E iinvaded Wednesday and Satur-]'afternoons by Maine visitors. Ongesday a strong Colby College

! beat Tech 9-1.'Ilby, one of the top teams in Newiiand, showed fine hitting andi pitching in outclassing the En-"is. Larry Jones singled in thei Tech tally. A bright spot forfl fans was the fine relief hurling: ick Curran. Curran pitched 5 2/3Egs while giving up only oneW'ed run.M° Satulday afternoon Bowdoin

;!iAded with a five-run tenth inningj'lllify a fine Tech rally. Barringe:fnal inning, this was the engi-ne' best game this year. Going;tj&the last of the sixth inning, thejdoin pitcher had a no-hitter andiasriding on a 6-0 lead. Led by sin-ilesby Chuck Speier, Pete Hohorst1ij,5*Varren Goodnow and a three-

~ho0mer by Bob White, the Engi-[:e tied the game. Once again Cur-ij/pitched fine relief ball.

MIT Trackmen Downed By TuftsIn Second Cinder Meet Of Season

Tufts handed MIT a 74 to 61 lossSaturday in Tech's second dual meetof the outdoor season. The runningevents were very evenly matched withTufts gaining only a two-point mar-gin. Outstanding was Glen Bennett's58, double win in the mile, and half-mile events, where both times he camefrom behind on the backstretch towin by several yards. Tech's onlyother running first was a surprisewin by Ed Bell '58 who led by a footover the last low hurdle down to thewire. Tech made its best showing ina sweep of the pole vault led by VitoMaglione '57. Ed Hoyt '57 gave Techits only other first by winning thehammer throw. Tufts dealt their mostfatal blows in the 220, high jump,discus, and javelin where they tookboth first and second places.

The Beaver Frosh were very im-pressive in their 81 to 44 crushing ofTufts' frlosh. Dick Rossman did aphenomenal job as he added sixteenpoints with firsts in the hammer andjavelin and seconds in the shot anddiscus. Bob Murano easily won boththe 880 and mile events.

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Next Saturday both varsity andfrosh travel to Durham for a dualmeet with the University of NewHampshire.

Tech Sailo rs TakeNew England Elims

The Tech sailors romped awaywith their New England dinghychampionship eliminations Sundayon the Thames River at the CoastGuard Academy. Sailing in a lightbut steady southerly breeze, Tech top-ped the six other competing collegesby a wide margin and earned theright to go to the New England finalsalong with second place Tufts andthird place Trinity. The top threeteams from each of the other twoeliminations held this week-end alsoqualify for the finals to be held May11 and 12 at the Edgewood YachtClub near Brown University.

Bill Stiles '57 and crew DennisPosey '59, sailing in "A" divisiontied teammate "B" division skipperBill Widnall '59 and crew SteveStrong '57 for high point honors with51 points apiece. Widnall had 6 firstsand 1 sixth; Stiles had 3 firsts, 3seconds, and 1 third.FINAL STANDINGS: 1. MIT 102;2. Tufts 88; 3. Trinity 70; 4. North-eastern 68; 5. Rhode Island 59; 6.Williams 57; 7. Holy Cross 41.

COFFEE HOURDean Fassett (Dean of Residence)

and Mr. Mackintosh (Assistant Direc-tor of General Services), will beguests at a coffee hour in TalbotLounge on Thursday, May 2 at 8:30to answer questions about the dorms.All students are welcome.

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The heavyweight shells are seen stroking in the dusk of the Charles during last Saturday'srace. The boats represented are Harvard, Syracuse, BU, and MIT.

Harvard Crews Take Biglin BowlFive Other Races In Near Sweep

Only a last second sprint by theSyracuse JV heavyweight boat keptHarvard's powerful Crimson fleetfrom a sweep of the seven raceCharles River regatta. Leading al-most all the way, the Harvard var-sity lights stroked a smooth andsteady 33 to pull away from Tech'simproving but still sloppy eight.Overstroking the Cantabs all the way,the Engineers could top nothing butDartmouth as Harvard swept in bytwo lengths in record time of 6:29.6to take the coveted Biglin Bowl.

With a strong following wind, thecrews enjoyed the fastest day of rac-ing in years. Harvard crews took thefrosh and JV light races and a spe-cial freshman second race as well.Tech was second in the JV tiff.

The Tech heavyweight boats open-ed their season on a disappointing-if not unexpected note-as they werenever in serious contention. Harvardtook an early lead in the frosh raceand slowly pulled out followed bySyracuse. The late Syracuse sprintfell a length short and Harvard wonin 8:53.8. The green Engineer froshwere five lengths back, one ahead ofhapless BU. The JV race was a vir-tual repeat save only for the absenceof the scratched BU boat and the Gar-rison finish of the Syracuse boat,which succeeded this race as it fail-ed in the others. The Tech heaviesrowed a creditable race. Harvard,leading throughout, fought off a Syra-cuse bid to win. Harvard's 8:48.4 wasthe winner. Tech was two lengthsback, another two behind BUT.

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beaver bA rk - - sDuring the recent AA meeting that banned field day athletics, one of

the braver voices mentioned a quote from the former president of the Insti-tute, Karl T. Compton: "The purpose of athletics at Tech is for the benefitof the student, not for the glory of MIT." Unfortunately, Dr. Compton'sremark produced only a few embarrassed looks upon the faces of the repre-sented AA membership.

The tone of the meeting was set by the letter which announced its timeand place. It suggested that it had come time to determine whether field daysports were detrimental to the varsity program or not. And it was on this

plain that the discussion stagnated.No one seemed to have the insight to mention that the primary purpose

of field day athletic competition was to develop class and school spirit bygiving Technen a chance to act together as part of MIT. The major benefitsso derived were increasing the emotional and social education of the personsinvolved, and the enhancement of that feeling of pride in blonging which iscalled school spirit. T Club's president, Mac Jordan '58, stated early of theAA that "it is not our job to decide on questions of school spirit, hazing, orthe purposes of field day, but to support intercollegiate athletics at MIT."He followed this with "Fied Day has hampered interschool rivalry; we arelooked down upon by some other schools because we do not furnish effectivecompetition." Glenn Strehle '58, varsity council president, mentioned thatby hindering some of our varsity teams, Field Day has deterTed from ourpride in victory during intercollegiate sports.

These terms to describe MIT athletic policy, "effective competition,""pride in victory," "interschool rivalry," seeln in rather peculiar contrastto Dr. Compton's dictum of "benefit for the student, not for the glory ofMIT." The crux of the matter remains for us, as Techmen, to decide. Do wewant to benefit from our athletic system by having maximum individualparticipation, or by theoretically having the most winning varsity teams.

Our distinguished president, Dr. Killian, has stated that "Our MITsports program is nearly unique in the country, in its amateur spirit, itswide student participation in expansion recreational, intramural, and inter-collegiate program . . ." The first MIT Director of Athletics, the late IvanJ. Geiger, declared "Participation in athletics must offer opportunity to theindividual to meet situations with growth in personal and social attainmentfor all members of the group. Athletic competition, competition to win,benefits the student educationally as well as physically . . . it is a privilegeto be extellded to all students, certainly not to be restricted to a few . . ."

The former purchasing agent now serving as athletic director, RichardBalch, was quoted just over a year ago as saying that our field day systemwas "outstanding." Since field day athletic competition would have beernfifty-two years old this year, it is a surprising reversal of opinion fromsomeone supposedly well-versed in keeping a mature, "fatherly" course.

Under the surface quite more is at stake in this question than annualfreshman-sophomore rivalry. It calls for the reconsideration of our entireathletic mnovement during the last years. It deserves our sincere thought-and action. -by Pat J. McGovern, Jr.

Lacrosse Team StillLacks Victory AfterUNH, Harvard Game

Coach Ben Martin's varsity la-crosse squad is still looking for itsfirst win after dropping a hardfought 6-4 decision to Harvard, andlosing to a strong team from the Uni-versity of New Hampshire by a 5-1count. The team stands at the two-thirds mark in the season with onlythree encounters remaining -on theschedule.

Despite the fact that Tech heldan early lead in the Harvard game,a late rally took the decision. It wasa thrilling game throughout and fora time it looked as though the Tech-men might edge out the Cantabs.

The UNH game, after the firstfive minutes, was dominated by thevisitors from The North. Dick Child57, tied the score 1-1 after UNH hadquickly taken the lead. After that,however, the visitors added steadilyto their margin.

The frosh fought hard to get a 2-2deadlock with the UNH frosh. Oneovertime period was recorded butneither team could tally the decidingmarker. Tomorrow, the frosh journeyto Andover to meet one of the toughprep school squads.

Tennis Squad WinsSnaps Losing Streak

Last Saturday, the MIT tennisteam turned in its first win of theseason, and they did it convincinglyby beating Bowdoin 7-2. Singlesre'atches were won by Captain JohnPease '57, Dick Hough '58, PeteMoss '59, Boyd Givan '57, and BobKenefick '59. Pease and Moss com-bined to win their doubles match asdid Hough and Givan.

The victory was captured on thehome courts, and broke a losingstreak which had been extended tofour games on the previous day by atough 5-4 loss to Colby. Hough andGivan again came through in bothsingles and doubles, and Kenefickteamed with Jeff Winicour '59 for asecond doubles win.

Although showing only a 4-1 rec-ord, the Tech netmen have playedwell, with two of the losses beingby scores of 5-4. With several sopho-mores on the roster, the team. seemsto be improving with experience andshould turn in a victory against theirnext opponents, Boston University.

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