University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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IS l'. IISISOTSOY Louis 'l'. lbbotson, I,llJl'21l'lHIl, cattle to the University in l928. It is he who is in charge of all that has to tlo with Maine's library. Other menibers ol' the library's stafl' are Dorothy S. Mellonaltl, Reference l,llJI'2il'lLil1I Mary F. Reed, Cataloger: Sally P. Hogan, Circulation .-Xssistantg antl Isabell S. Morrow. Assistant. ln acltlition, some students are eniployfecl. The University library contains an estiniatecl 201,376 volumes and pamphlets and receives currently about L200 peri- odicals. lt is 21 depository lor both state and lecleral tlocuntents. Its resources are extencletl to other libraries, to visiting scholars, and to graduates ol the Univer- sity at any time when it can do so without interference with needs on the campus. Among its books are not only reference volumes, but novels and other light ina- terial. HAR IJ AT XVORK 4-J I, JT youth... To the fire .... To the life that is mov-ing and call-ing us! To the

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M Aft I A.S.T.P. and more A.S.T.P., the students were well informed on the doings of the Army Specialized Training Program and equally well prepared to see more of this group. Many a coed's dream had been shattered in the spring of 1944, when the near-ll00 Army stu- dents marched away, to be replaced by a scattered few A.S.T.R.P.'s. XVhen the student body returned to school last fall, they hoped for the best, but found only approxi- mately the same small number of seventeen-year-old Re- serves. It wasn't until mid-winter that some older men arrived-students in the Army Specialized Training Ad- vanced Program. At the present time Maine has a rela- tively few third-term Reserves and a slightly larger num- ber of regular A.S.T.P.'s-all studying advanced engineer- ing subjects. The campus set-up, as far as the Army is concerned, has changed this year to the degree that it now seems more nearly like the usual civilian routine. Both civilian and Army n1en are treated in what was last year an all-Army infirmary, the Beta house. No A.S.T.P.'s are living in fraternity houses, since Oak Hall and Hannibal Hamlin Hall will accommodate all those on campus. lt is, though, still a familiar sight to see columns of men marching from Aubert to Stevens and a familiar sound to hear these singing, whistling, or shoutini tl two-three fot eravearof .- men g ie ever-f - ll'.H This AS annllar, Hut- , to the students ' .T.U. 31145. , 15 symbolic of L