Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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and committees usually inactive. Nevertheless, dances were still successful, the Daily Student con- tinued to print the news, and the ARBUTUS struggled to completion. No, college, like the proverbial old gray mare, ain ' t what it used to be ; more classes, less play ; longer hours, fewer cokes. But, being that I.U. is well over a hundred years old and has gone through several other wars already, we sincerely doubt that our petty trials will spell the death knell of coUich. BRIDGE WILL REMAIN a favorite pastime long as there are four people left on campus. THE VICTORY THEME won the last homecom- ing decorations contest for the Tri Delts. MEN MAY COME and men may go. Dame ' s Ball lives on forever. but the THE ARBUTUS, having run for fifty years, won ' t let a little thing like a war hinder publication. 13

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CLASSES ARE ATTENDED by nearly everyone — even on Saturday. MUSIC Commons style, hath power to soothe the savage miH-term flu nicer. THE LIBRARY fosters the growth of research pa- pers and Phi Beta Kappas. CAMPUS ACTIVITIES, ALTERED BUT HONORED, TAKE THE WAR IN STRIDE Many of the traditions of Indiana University, the ones that weathered the draft, the point-ration sys- tem, and had a high priority rating, retained their place in the War Service Plan. Although curtailed and altered, with patriotic themes and motifs, ac- tivities of all kinds proved their worth as builders of morale and initiative among the students. A transition was noticeable at Homecoming time when decorations, formerly flowery and elaborate, were blended into the national victory campaign. Other strictly wartime activities included the scrap drive, the sale of bonds and stamps by campus or- ganizations, and the students ' co-operation with the Red Cross blood donation drives. Gone with gas rationing and tire inspections were the campus jelopies, and equally absent with the labor shortage were the Commons waiters. Even the Commons band disappeared before the year ended. Bridge and cokes lost their emphasis at the pressure of Saturday classes and intensified study programs. Campus politics suffered most. Once the home of fierce political battles, mass party meetings, and blaring campaigns, Indiana was reduced to but- one major election this year, that being to elect a Junior Prom Queen. Union Board elections are out for the duration, and Senior otliccrs have long since been selected on a merit-point basis. Campus rulers found little enthusiasm among the rank and file for or- ganization projects, meetings were sorely neglected. AFTER SORORITY RUSH the mak students on campus wonder what happened to the beautiful women. 12

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PRESIDENT WELLS and cominciiccnicnt speaker James Adams, look over a few notes. DECEMBER CRADS Never has a class more truly earned the right to receive degrees. And the 580 Seniors and postgraduates of the first mid-year graduating class in the history of In- diana University knew better than anyone else what that parting pat on the back from Dr. H. B Wells, their president, meant. F ' or Sunday afternoon from 2 :30 to 3 :58 o ' clock they sat under the mellow lights of the Auditorium and heard the final ceremonies for the December Class of 1942. a class born and graduated in the travail of a world at war. Only a few faltering steps removed from actual participation in some phase of that war ; they had felt for three years and three months the ominous pressure of war. War was a novel break from the routine of get- ting ready for that transition from high school to college when it first appeared in the headlines in that September week end of 1939. For a time it was an interesting and fa.scinating drama on the pages of their newspapers. 14