UESDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1958
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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.
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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
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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.
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