Anderson University - Echoes Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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8:4O- 9:30 'N Individualism is the keynote of the pre-chapel period-albeit coerced individualism. Who knows? Maybe those "melody masters" who trek to the music hall to practice are sincere in their desire to make the world a more interesting place. Anyway, the new music hall solves the problem of those who weren't localizing their vocalizing. Pathetic Psychology hopefuls! The only time this rare specie comes into the open for observation is at this pre-chapel period. Even a few smatterings of ignorance may stand one in good stead in the moment of that inevitable "first question." There are, we hear, Freshmen who are not in Dr. Schminke's History class who still receive mail from home. A few of these are in evidence as they plague Agnes, the "girl at the desk" to ascertain the possi- bility of a letter from home. Sixty

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7:45 - 8:40 1 "' Q :N W I,.. 7:45 until 8:40- Note carefully .... that two-at-a-time gait on the south stairs is not a product of uninhibited auroral ambitiong it is the result of the new curfew in Sociology class. Such stringent discipline as the "two-minute edict" would completely ruin digestion were it not for the open-door policy in Doctor Martin's Bible 201. Maybe the good vice-president of our institution re- members tbat a few of us must complete the cruel calisthentics of Russian over the seventy-six steppes to return thc unopened reserve book to its lair. -Xi U

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41, 1 I , 9:30 -10:15 gl 'N W Even oft repetition could never quite suppress the emotional tingle that came whenever the students rose to sing "Alma Mater" as a prelude to another chapel hour. When, a moment later, Charlie Wilson led them in a hymn or two, they sang with fervor and enthusiasm. Then they heard the dean or the president read from the Scriptures and somebody prayed. The announcements would follow and, at length, the speaker of the morning. Naturally, some of the speakers were dull and some only succeeded in making everybody laugh. That is to be expected in any sequence of orators. But many of them were inspiring-Miss Esther Boyer, Dr. Jesse Bader, President Morrison, Reverend Bransford-to mention only a few. There was a variegated assortment of clever announcements this year, too. From the' "poetry" of Milburn Miller to the elaborate dialogues of costumed "characters"-they ran the full gamut of pic- turesque salesmanship. i