Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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1 1 Of course, college would not have been complete without the sports. (This does not refer to the kind so readily discerned in the halls and campus club.) Butler ' s athletic program was a source of pleasure and entertainment to thousands of people . . . both in and out of school. To those who actively participated, there was a keen interest based largely en competition, cooperation, fair play, and healthy living. Those who participated by giving moral (and often physical) support, reflected a school spirit that embodied fun, fascination, and loyalty, without which college would not have been college. The informal get- togethers, the practice sessions, the long trips on trains, sprinkled with verbal appraisals and controversies, contributed toward the end of athletics as surely as did the encounters themselves. When a Butler fan thinks of sports, he automatically thinks of the ever-loyal, ever-lovin ' band and cheer leaders. Their unceasing variations in style, stunts, and arrangements are anticipated at half-time. They act as the magnet that pulls together thousands of individuals into a unified student body with but one objective ... to win.

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, i » ,» J $,? 2 Fd • ■ That old green barn, which had affectionately been called the Campus Club, had served us faithfully. It was small, and usually crowded, but we loved it. The lack of bridge tables was exceeded only by the lack of chairs. We might have thought that the situation was bad, but when the inadequate edifice burned, and we were herded into two halls adjoining the cafeteria, which, of necessity, was to be our temporary campus club, we saw the number of bridge and euchre players halve, and the supply of kibitzers double. Then came the scoop! The Collegian, blazoning a flamboyant EXTRA, announced that the Board had said ' yes ' to the new Union building. The ground was broken amid the pomp that should attend such a memorable occasion. And under the scrutiny of a student body which could scarcely believe what it was seeing, the cornerstone, vested with the appropriate articles, was cemented into the key position that it now maintains. Our long wished for Union building was to become a reality. We watched it grow from a small hole to a large one; from a few stark beams to a few unfinished walls . . . and we continued to watch.