Minnesota State University - Katonian Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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.,' - 3 i'tffeif.95t i ' iw FRESHMAN CLASS THI5 freshman class this year showed a big increase over last year's enrollment. Thirty of the three hundred enrolled were one-year rural students: seven, two-year rural: one hundred and ninety, two-year regular students: and seventy-three, four-year pupils. Freshman week was held at the beginning of the College year. This was planned to enable that group to become acquainted with their new surroundings and classmates. Each girl had an upper classman appointed as her big sister. This plan, Sponsored by the Y. W. C. A., Newman Club, and Lutheran Club, helped a great deal to overcome any feeling of strangeness which existed among the freshman girls. Through their big sisters they became acquainted with others and were brought into the school activities. When the new students began to feel at home at the College, they were obliged to wear green caps and obey their superiors for one day. When a few bold freshies tried to ignore the order and appeared capless, they were severely reprimanded by an upper classman who came seemingly from nowhere. Most of the freshmen enjoyed this ordeal as much as the upper classmen. A party in the gymnasium was also held during this first week to give the students a taste of social life at the College. At the end of the Hrst week the new members of the school had been entertained and had provided entertainment: they had registered and become familiar with the class rooms they were to occupy during the next three months, They had had one gala week and were prepared to settle down to their studies and bec.ome three hundred more men and women of which Mankato Stare Teachers College can be proud. V Twvnly-Q E. 1 If fNi5'SZ:'E43T ' can to lr ia , ag ,, al l l I l l I I l 1 I l 1 l gil 1 'i l

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AFTER LISTENING TO A LADY LECTURE A ON WAR THE squad had fallen in with unusual snap. An under-current of expectancy was felt by the hardest-boiled Irish sergeant as the regiment came to attention on the hard, sun-baked parade ground. Rumor had, as usual, been rife. The latrine orderly had it, on the best of authority, that today was to inaugurate the post-graduate course in the finer details of the art of the bayonet. The fact that the instruction was to be given by an especially assigned expert, in the person of a British Tommy, impressed the regiment with the nearness of active service. After mess the squad was marched off to the drill field and was placed in charge of Lance-Corporal Bill Jones, of His Majesty's. Short and stocky in build, with the shoulders of a fighter and the clear eye of a plainsman, Lance- Corporal Jones belied his Limehouse background and well might have been a product of the open prairie. But the most savage of old time Indian iighters would have paled, had they come to grips with Bill Jones. His style of combat was the product of a more civilized age. The system of bayonet practice by which the squad had been taught was not unlike the system of football coaches who teach teams the fine points of tackling, but Bill changed all that. Naw then! exclaims Lance-Corporal Jones, eyeing the squad with evident disapproval. Corporal! Tyke yer men through the bloody drill! Myke 'em snap an' I'll see wot thye can do! The'.Corporal. with much trepidation, takes the men part way through the familiar routine. Hi! wot t'hell! Wot is this? A bloody tay party? S'ye, you men, there's a bloody war on. Tickle a 'un like that an' ee'd 'ave yer impyled like a bleedin' pig 'ee would! 'Ere you! gimme yer gun! Look 'ere naw! Lance-Corporal Jones grabs the nearest rifle. Gnashing his teeth and muttering profanity he works himself into an apparent fury. Charging across the open space, he hurls himself full length, striking out with his bay.onet. Picking himself up from the straw he admonishes, When yer charge, put some 'yte in ut! Think o' all thim Belgim bybies wit' 'ere 'ands cut orf! an' em Canydian soljers the 'uns cricilied! When yer strike yer got ter kill the first lunge: ther' ayn't no second chanst. If yer don't kill them, they'll bloody well kill you! And so the squad is initiated into the modern art of bayonet fighting. They learn something of anatomy fthat a bone may not impede the fatal thrustj: they learn to aim for the throat fthat withdrawal may be easierj : they learn to kick in the stomach Cto free the bayonet if too firmly imbeddedj: they learn of man's inhumanity t.o man. Lance-Corporal Jones marches the squad back to quarters assuring them that on the morrow the real work will begin. The men are feeling a little squeamish. Tomorrow they will feel a little less so. When they have become veterans Cas some of the less fortunate eventually willj, they will not feel squeamish at all. -ALEXIS PARLOVA. Twenty