Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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History ofthe Amalgamazfeof Senior Class E have come to that stage where we leave the picture of life as college students and step into the business and professional world. It is not without a sense of regret that we do this for there is something romantic about the college world which is peculiar to itself. Its occupants seem to move in an exclusive and much- privileged circle. To be a graduate is to be one of many, just a better prepared Worker of the world, but to be a student is to be a hope of the future. To be sure, we are all eager to go out and show how the world ought to be run, but is it not with just a little tinge of sorrow that we leave behind us our college days? Naturally, as we leave Temple, we shall all carry away our own particular mem- ories, but aside from these we have common ones. When we came four years ago, college spirit seemed to be dormant at Temple. Some sporadic and half-hearted attempts were made by stray groups of Sophomores to carry out the traditional Freshman hazing, but they all failed for want of numbers. It remained for our Class to give this phase of college life an organized and consistent form at Temple. Considering the lot of the present Freshman, we do not know whether to rejoice or to grieve at our own comparatively unmolested Freshman year. Nevertheless, the usual reception to the Freshmen and the Freshmen's return reception were held in all departments. These, of course, made us feel more at home. Since class amalgamation was not yet to take place for two years, many of our memories are associated with particular groups. The College, early in the Spring, had the Annual Freshman Spring Hopg Teachers College had its Promsg the Com- mercial Teachers Training Freshmen had a gay Hallowe'en Party and a picnic at Willow Grove, the Health Education and the School of Commerce Freshmen had various dances and parties in the ole gym. Mention of the ole gym brings back memories of our gym classes and the old locker room. How eagerly we watched the slowly rising walls of Conwell Hall and dreamed of larger quarters and a pool of our own! When we came back as Sophomores, it was decided that the life of the present and future Freshmen at Temple was no longer to be serene and unmolested. Under the leadership of a Vigilance Committee, composed of Ornston, Winch, Smith, and Rittenhouse, the Freshman Regulations were inaugurated, together with the dink, green socks and ties, class rushes, dink day and tentative plans for the unification of classes. As an indication that we meant business, we clipped the hair of the newly elected Freshman president. Well do we remember Russell Smith, in the fi. W- -.1---M -aa, - A : --g---aa, 144.43 -T92 --3 e Q i'l4 F f-- X Q Lf J Nineteen

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Class Rush, holding our banner aloft on one of the Temple window ledges on Montgomery Avenue, taunting the baffled Freshmen in their vain efforts to capture it. Again our glories mounted when we beat them in the tug-of-war. But, alas, we had so thoroughly tormented the Freshmen that they came back at us with a rush and beat us in both the football and the basketball games. The usual recep- tions and return receptions were successfully held in all departments. The Com- mercial Teacher Training Sophomores gave a farewell dinner to those who were not to return as Juniors, and the Health Eds had a rousing good time in a picnic at Valley Forge. The School of Commerce had most of its activities through its various clubs. This was the year when Conwell Hall was opened with its great gymnasium and its long-awaited pool. As Juniors we effected a complete amalgamation of College, Teachers College and School of Commerce. Our ofhcers were: Sterling Atkinson, Presidentg Chace Atwood, Vice-presidentg Katherine Dill, Treasurer, and Mae Nicholson, Secretary. The professional schools claimed many of our staunchest members but still we had plenty of spirit. It is necessary to mention only one event of our Junior year for that was the most resplendent class event ever held at Temple-the Junior Prom. The large number who attended that gala affair at the Manufacturers Club will long remember that most delightful and entrancing evening. We are new in our last year at Temple. Our officers this year are Winch, Presi- dentg Lola Hoff, Vice-president, Katherine Dill, Treasurer, and Laura Thompson, Secretary. We have put away our under-elassman ways and have assumed the dignity and gravity beitting Seniors. We are glad to see a rising spirit in Temple and are happy in the knowledge that we were instrumental in its development. We are the last graduating class to have had Dr. Russell H. Conwell, whose ideals and aspirations we shall ever endeavor to live up to and to carry out, as President of Temple University and the first to welcome Dr. Charles E. Beury as the new President. We have in common the ambition to see Temple University grow to be the mighty and inHuential institution our beloved Founder hoped it to be. -J. B. ---r v Y- -.. , - . , Y ,, f-' X' 'J'-'-I , - - .T .- .. cw, ... .K ' .- lg af f fd e e- A A 'Q is .-.A Twenty