University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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till- new fill- dent, of 1939 -I. i nd on tin- rile if ( )| 1 North ( ' .ollepe. the - iiil.ul of knowl- edge leaps liun- i;ril -k vt.ud. Below: Tin- iilee rlnli- -.111 for tin-in as i 1 1 i stood around the fire. . . . And Se ;ird 1 ' leoon. represent- ing them, received the torch. day e ruing brought another convocation and a talk by Dean Lawson on Career Information. The tired beginner also had a chance to dance at the opening varsity well, some chance. Tuesday there was still an opportunity to register I if one had forgotten ) and enrollment be- H.MI in Robinson . m: here was the test of any fr-liinan ' - Mrength of spirit even those that got through quickly found they should have been more careful in choosing teachers. That night tliev went to the auditorium again to be formally introduced to campus leaders and various Deans. Wednesday was a breathing-spell for many, others still had enrollment lines to battle. Some paid their fees. Most walked over toward the Union Building that night to explore and dance well, try to dance. Finally, classes started. And that evening everybody adjourned to North College Hill (near Corbin Hall) to be inducted. In its externals, the Induction was merely tlie business of watching a firebasket and hearing a couple of speeches on Corbin Hill, then strag- gling down to the stadium to hear some more speeches and the band and watch members ) ' Sachem run panting down from the Ad building with a torch. But there was more to it than that. And maybe the seniors can feel it more deeply than the freshmen. The passing on of the torch from one class to another, the story of the University seal, the challenge of the Athenian oath there ' s a strange combination of significant history and vigorous, youthful immediacy in the ceremony of the Freshman Induction that shows, some- how, something of the real meaning of K.U. (Photos by An llnl t

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THE JAYHAWKER Paul Gilles Bill McGinnis Pat Bowman Dick Leannonth Ire You Really Promising ? We doubt it. We don ' t mean that personally really. We don ' t know you personally. But as far as your semi-official capacity is concerned ili.it is. after your group or organization, in a haphazard sort of way. has chosen you to represent them on this page we ' ve had your pictures taken and tabulated your identifications. It ' s been some trouble, too. And we wonder. We really do. For a number of years, you see, the Jayhawker has presented pictures of promising freshmen, submitted by their respective organized houses or picked from indepen- dent men by stabbing in the dark. Frankly, our predictions haven ' t been worth much. Our Prognostication Percentage has a rating of Pretty Poor. In fact, when we check back, we discovered that a lot of ' em don ' t stay in school long enough to graduate. A few nasty people have even gone so far as to brand this page Nominations for Oblivion. Now, that isn ' t fair. Some of you are going to be impor- tant people. Others of you may just have some bad luck and not turn out to be geniuses. But about half of you never had any business being on this page at all even if you are good-looking. We hope that makes you mad. We hope you try harder because of it. We Have llf.-i sons for Wondering And We Hope You Prove Us Wrong Evelyn Jones Tom Lillard Bob Kirk Mary Frances Sullivan Bob White Gloria Biechele Jean Bailey Lacey Haynes Jean Myhre Tim Macy Dick Wilson Suzanne Haskins Joe Rosenfield Jama Lewis Bill Burt Suzanne McNaughton Bud Homer Henry Lowenstein Helen Jenkins Artell Metcalf Rodney Smith Virginia Gsell