Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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ecewwer The busiest place in the world—the general office at registration time. For there is the schedule for the ensuing term. “Do I want to take history this term?” “I don’t want that 7:50 class; I’d have to get up at 7:30!” Students laboriously make out their schedules for the term so the deans will have something to cast aside and re¬ place. But it is all over finally, and life settles down to just what it was during the twelve weeks before. But December brought another event, far more significant to us all than registration day. For on December 8 the United States off icially de¬ clared war on Japan and the next day on Ger¬ many and Italy. For the first few days everyone was stunned; then we all settled down and life went on almost as before—but not for long. Numerous restrictions on everyday life appeared. Then selective service boards began calling our young men faster. And we knew that they were leaving, not for a year of physical and military training, but for a war. This brought home to us the reality of the great conflict and awakened us to a willingness to sacrifice. But the war did not prevent Christmas and the Christmas dinner in the college dining hall. The joy of the season was reflected in the annual event which has become a definite part of campus life the last few days before Christmas vacation. Here we find Elladyne and Bob conversing with Dorothy and Maynard—talking over vacation plans, perhaps—while waiting for their tables to be called. And there is another December event, which the nurse doubtless remembers vividly, the famous “Murder in the Rock Garden.” 0 v .on

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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.

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I unuctru Merely another month, and inci¬ dentally the first one on the new calendar, is all that January means to most of us. It is distinguished by nothing unless it be cold winter weather. And it was this cold weath¬ er that made the month an appro¬ priate time for the seniors to obtain their class jackets. The photo shows a group of these campus sages clad in their black wool jackets with white buttons and black-on-white emblem. In January the announcement of the fall term honor roll students re¬ vealed that Virginia Anderson stood at the top with straight A in her 18 hours of class work. The photograph¬ er caught her in this pose with a man on the campus who seems rather cool toward her. We confess we don’t quite get the connection between Vir¬ ginia with a snow man and Virginia on the honor roll. Amphics rejoiced in January when their Marionette sales victory of 1V 2 % more yearbook subscriptions than their competitors was announced and they received the loving cup. Perhaps it was a very early anti¬ cipation of spring that caused the Journal to publish this month stu¬ dent views on draftee marriages. Twelve