Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Few first-year men are without an extensive knowledge of the leading swing bands of the nation. Sometimes they like to discuss the movie stars; and some of them are still trying to get screen tests to play Don Amechie ' s role in The Life of Mickey Rooney (Hollywood owes us for this suggestion for a picture). About half of classmen have been five letter-men in high school, but study too much to play football, base- ball, basketball, or tennis in college. They like to get on the same snapshots with the president of the college Freshman Brown does a bit of browsir, or the football coach. By the time the mid-term reports come out, the student has been looking around to see il any- one sees him when he opens his books to study. And by the time he gets back his first theme, he is looking lor a novelist who has a good rate on freshman themes. All in all. though, the freshman isn ' t quite so bad as some say he is. Wake Forest has been blessed with a number of good freshman student-, and a number of them have quietly worked their ways into the favor of their fellow-students. A

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Freshmen IT ' S NOT A HARD matter to spot a freshman, say many of the older students. Now just what category they put the freshmen in is another tiling. Per- haps they are thinking of the lad who comes to the campus with a couple of axe-handles in one hand and a supply of hay-seed in his suitcase. That day ol the freshman is apparently over. The freshman today comes to college with a three- inch-checkered sport coat, sometimes a Ford V-8, and miu and then with a vocabulary of over seventy-five words. Definitely his status in college life is a stage, and there is little chance of evading it entirely. Ninety-five percent of the frosh deride to turn politico and run for scmic office. This ast number turns on the other five per cent of the class enrollment, who are usual- ly classed as non-belligerent, and practically smother them with political pressure. The result is that the five per cent who aren ' t running for office collect so many cigars from candidates that they, in turn, decide to become office-seekers during their sophomore year. €TIVITIES ' ■ t tm 1 Y wt Lji tf 1 m Wl m ■ ' C hP r ■ • JS ide A applies lo milk on!)

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IT DOESN ' T TAKE the average freshman long to claim his share nl life around the college. First ol all he must prove his versatility, and he usually sings on his way across the campus, plays his radio at full hlast, goes out for at least one sport — or else talks ahout the six letters he made in high school. When the campus newspaper editors he- gin a drive to get new men. they generally wind up with fifty former high school editors and not a single reporter. A freshman can write a five-hundred-word theme on any topic at a moment ' s notice; he can speak authenti- cally on any spurt or swing band; and he often wears his best suit to class for the first week. In spite of the pointed accusations at the traditional newish hopefuls, we find that there arc talents of outstanding qualities to In- found among each entering class. While few of them dream of being beaten as orators, debaters, athletes, or whatever fields of endeavor they decide to cast their extra-curricular talents, the older leaders Orator Morgan expounds.