Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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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

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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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Missions were again presented in a three day convention sponsored by the Y. M. W. B. The Reverend and Mrs. C. C. Decker, of the African field, were the speakers this year at the event which has always made a contribution to college religious life and to the missionary cause. Before March passed, the students and faculty enjoyed the formal birth¬ day dinner in the college dining hall. The programs by the month groups treated themes ranging from Little Orphan Annie to Father Time and from Balboa to gypsies. The greatest day in April and per¬ haps the most glorious of all the year was Easter Sunday. People from the college made up their share of the multitude who witnessed the grand and beautiful Marion Easter Pageant. The nationally famous ob¬ servance was held in the coliseum at 7 A. M. Following the hour of the pageant, Easter was observed at the college by the Easter breakfast prepared, tradi¬ tionally, by the men of Congress Hall. April also brought Arbor Day with the traditional campus clean-up per¬ formed by the state clubs. In addi¬ tion to the regular clean-up of grounds and buildings, a permanent improvement was made—the prepara¬ tion of a graveled parking area at the men’s dorm. Journal and Marionette business managers and editors, with their helpers, ambitiously papered the publications office. Fourteen