Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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m October 7 was the first red letter day of that month. It was late after¬ noon of that day, a Monday, when the Senior Class launched their com¬ paratively successful secret expedi¬ tion to Chicago. (The trip is tradi¬ tional; the secrecy is occasional.) Members of the Junior Class, with eyes tired from weeks of all-night vigils, stood in alley entrances and at intersections to bid the seniors bon voyage as the bus left the garage and headed north. Two “taggers” who knew too much remembered being kidnapped. The sneak as represented by photo¬ graphic art may be seen above. The title of the picture is “Shhh!” The last half of October was de¬ voted primarily to spiritual activ¬ ities. The customary fall revival meetings were conducted this year by Dr. Babcock (above), evangelist of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. In connection with the revival the first annual Ministerial Convention of the Marion College Area was held during the last week-end of the meet¬ ings, with Dr. Marston, Bishop of the Free Methodist Church, as the guest speaker for the occasion. On page twenty-three of “Days of Our Year” will be found the picture of this splendid group of ministers, tak¬ en during their congregation on the friendly campus of Marion College.

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“In one door and out the other.” Sounds commonplace, doesn’t it? And it is, it’s the routine every registra¬ tion day. In one door—cards checked, records made, bills paid—then out the other. Connie, Paul, Truman, Georgia Lee, Bette, Maxine, Emerson, Bill, and A1 —that is the procession we see filing in one door to register and out the other to begin working, studying, playing, praying—they are now be¬ ginning to live at M. C., becoming a part of the college, letting it become a part of them. Both are inevit¬ able. With registration completed, Sep¬ tember has made its first contribu¬ tion to the “days of our year.” The next event in September is one which involves not all, but a large part of the student body—some of them as subjects and the others as objects of a certain action—the (definitely) informal inductance of the freshmen into campus life. Theo¬ retically, a freshie is assisted in his adjustments to the collegiate made of being by orientation 101; but it seems to be habitual that the sopho¬ more class supplements the aid given to the freshmen by this course of Dr. McConn ' s. A classic victim of sophomore action is pictured below —we mean Marge, not this telephone pole. Other notable contributions of Sep¬ tember are the anti-homesickness program, the first Student Confer¬ ence of the year on Sept. 15. and the annual handshaking festival com¬ monly called the Faculty-Student Re¬ ception. Eight

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i ER 3, 1941 PL LECTURE ON ELECTRICITY ‘Electricity t Play” tvill be the tT:ci a of a iectur and demonstra- « f»wn by E. C. Stanley; at S | . w. toda in Mario® College i chapel tinder auspices of the .Mar¬ ion College Sccnee C „b. Stanley is Turner head of the chemistry departnun t of Penn Col-i b’tro, Oskaloosn, la. He received his! bachelor of scimct dejnre- from 1 Simps. n Colkgc, his n;t«:»T of arts degree from the Univ.r-itv of. Wisconsin, and seem a year at the University of Berlin. Achievements in modern electri¬ cal science will ho discussed arl ,; demonstrated by Stanley, Tickets for the lecture can b. obtained from Set . bers. ouemoer Extra-curricular activities include not only parties and programs for entertainment, but also some valuable educational features. The depart¬ mental clubs present features which definitely augment classroom instruction—often entertain¬ ing as well. In November the Science Club brought Prof. F. C. Stanley of Iowa to the campus for an intriguing lecture and demonstration on the eternally fascinating subject of electricity. The lecture included explanations of microphones, the electric eye, the production of ultra-violet light, the relation of the body and electricity, and the effect of sound on light. Thanksgiving Day still falls in November and is always one of the high lights of the month. There being just a one day vacation this year in¬ stead of the traditional two days, many of the students remained on the campus for the vaca¬ tion, November 20, and enjoyed the formal Thanksgiving Dinner in the college dining hall. The picture at the left shows Mrs. Rickey, one of the dieticians, engaged in an absolutely es¬ sential, but rather undramatic feature of the dinner. As November came to a close, the term fol¬ lowed suit. The term was brought to its con¬ clusion by the traditional Bluebook festival. For hours each day tired hands, guided by weary or ever blank minds, pushed pens across the inter¬ minable pages of the little blue books used for exams. Students recorded all they knew, all they could guess, and some they didn’t know, then went out to forget the whole terrible nightmare, to try to gather courage to face another term. Among November events was the inauguration of an M. C. chapter of America’s Town Meeting of the Air. Weekly broadcasts on current events were heard and then discussed by club members. And it was in November that A1 “Salty” Fen¬ nell left our campus to enlist in the naval reserve.