Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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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

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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 r - This year February furnished one of those comparatively rare days—a Friday the thirteenth, a day when everyone vehemently denies any su¬ perstitious beliefs and when multi¬ tudes in reality endure a day fraught with dreadful trepidation. But the day held no terrors; either out of dis¬ regard of the potential danger it held or out of blatant defiance of its threats the freshmen entertained on that day the whole student body at a party in the gymnasium. And they did it quite successfully. Through the crepe “rainbow” (above) we see the introductory phase to the eve¬ ning’s festivities, the unlucky ladder. The last two weeks of the month were devoted to a series of revival meetings with the Reverend W. D. Correll, the evangelist, preaching each evening in the College Church and each morning in the chapel. Stu¬ dents in large numbers opened their hearts to the Will of God. These two weeks will long be remembered as a time of showers of blessing when the Spirit of Christ was present in a truly marvelous way. Our evangel¬ ist’s ministry and friendship were enjoyed and appreciated by M. C. students. At their February meeting the Science Club enjoyed some very de¬ lightful scientific demonstrations, in¬ cluding an actual, prepared-on-the- spot exhibition of the internal won¬ ders of a cat. Another momentous event of this brief month was the invasion of the student ranks by a dreadful malady referred to as “the rash.” Thirteen