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COVER A clear case of less is more, the bonfires are fewer but taller these days. This picture came to us perhaps as an endorsement of the recent letter-writer who commented that "whoever is responsible for that picture on the [May] cover should be required to stand in the center of the Green and look around for one hour." Will the photographer please come forward?

30 A TRIUMPHANT FAILURE

John Ledyard has been called the patron saint of freshmen who run away. He was also a "brave Yankee, full of dreams and energy."

36 A COLLECTION OF EROTIC CAPITAL

From the bustle to the bosom and the bottom: the Players' costume collection

40 PORNOGRAPHY IN OUR TIME

"Does pornography's popularity tell us something, perhaps something important, about ourselves?"

46 WHAT IT WAS WAS GRID-GRAPH

Instant replay, more or less, in the days before Cosell and 27 commercials

4 Letters

14 Wearers of the Green

20 Reviews

25 The College

50 Undergraduate Chair

51 Development Report

59 Big Green Teams

62 Class Notes

95 Obituaries

108 Vox