UESDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1958 Deaths Top Semester News -.- . .. - a l i rt,, - . 1 - ' ' Jr • ',:_i . ...3.•...:•:, - 4 - . j .: l , ~1?i...„. TUG-OF-WAR accident injured six freshmen when blue band chair toppled over, RUSSIANS - INV diplomats visited 'ED" the Nittany Valley. The four Soviet STUDENTS NAMED President Eric A. Walker "Prexy" on October 2. Mrs. Walker and son. e campus in November. Brian, watch as All-University President Robert Steele reads the proclamation to Walker. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA 1 `~! ~~~ Flu, Football Also Rated Big Stories More than 4500 new students arrived at the University Sept. 8 to swell the main campus popu lation to a record total of nearly 14.000. But the normal tranquility of the new semester was short-lived. On Thursday night, Sept. 26, four days after the semester's first fa tality (Walter Majka, junior in civil engineering from Bingham ton. N.Y.) was claimed in a fall into a sunken patio, six freshmen were injured in the tug-of-war to end freshman customs. Only one of the students was hurt seriously, but the result was a move to bar the tug-of-war for future years. President Eric A. Walker re ceived the traditional title of stu dent esteem—"Prexy"—on Oct. 2. During the last two weeks in October, a respiratory diseases epidemic—which included Asiatic flu cases—hit more than 4000 stu dents. At the end of the month, four Russian diplomats—one with an Ivy League taste in clothes— visited the University to look at American educational facilities and describe their own. The Nittany Lions ended their season with a 6-3 record, and a winning season, despite not ful filling some pre-season predic tions. Much more grim, however, was the record of student fatali ties: a total of . seven. But the students went out of their way to raise S3OOO to aid an injured classmate, Larry Sharp, who broke his neck Oct. 12 in Recrea tion Hall. FLU CASES fffied t , ) ease ha more than 4000 Univ,-;,:lv s',l::: , •nts 2n o,.!o')er lEEE= ^ • THE HOLY CROSS thr::!er i..ut r.: ~, t football game of the Halfback e T.:to cut: up center for yardage. ANOTHER AUTO aceide:a took the 1:f.: of Jack W•:i,h, junior m forestry from Ca-Ale in January. PAGE SEVEN ~ the d:;-
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