West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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CAME SEPTEMBER 15, and seekers after higher lore trekked back to Morgantown . . . three women fainting in the registra- tion jam (traditional) at the Field House . . . Freshmen looking bewildered as fraterni- ties tossed epithets in pledge- garnering battles . . . New Prexy Lawall beaming wel- comes . . . Legs Hawley ex- udes confidence of prime year on the gridiron . . . misplaced confidence . . . Saturday, the twenty-fourth, fateful day, and the campus migrated to Pitts- burgh in a Beat Hell out of Pitt frenzy . . . Saturday p. m., long faces and short pocket- books . . . Celebrated any- way . . . First convocation . . . unior Farmers ' Week opened in Ag. college . . . VICTORY OVER WESLEY AN. Bobcats bolsters hopes of the hopeful . . . Band recaptures cup at Elkins Forest Festival . . . Undergrads trade drinks with grads in Charleston as W. and L keeps pace with the mad

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Mountaineers . . . More gloom . . . Jack Blair tops military heap with R. O. T. C. colonelcy . . . Kay- dets sweat and swear in iirst parade of the annum . . . Michigan State Spartans outspar Glennmen as gloom reaches consistency of cold butter . . . Frosh elect young Klebe class prexy . . . Gridders to Creighton, and belated victory . . . Beta oldclothes brawl a shoddy success . . . FOOTBALLERS TRIP YOUNGSTOWN and all is forgiven, for a week, anyway . . . Biennial head- ache, midsemesters, blights campus life . . . Moun- taineers lose to Western Reserve, descend to dog- house again . . . Louie Corson enters hall of fame with composition of an Alma Mater which clicks . . . Phi Sigs toss Nazi party (Phftttt, Hitler) as Sigma Chis dedicate new shack . . . Loss to Georgetown gridders fails to dampen Homecoming spirit . . . Pi Beta Phis and Kappa Sigs come through with Homecoming decoration cups . . . First Cadet Hop in armory — first formal of the season . . . U play- ers stage first production of the year . . . Manhattan cops Mountaineer game in N. Y. . . . Came back and squeezed out G.-W. Thanksgiving day . . . FRAT MEN DON Soup and Fish and do valiant battle with Organdy and Peach Tulle as Joe Sanders puts in tardy appearance for Men ' s Pan . . . Phi Beta Kappas initiate six . . . Engineers Ball, Hall formal attract Jitterbugs . . . Yule serenade: Bottled heat keeps up fraternity morale — and voices — in an- nual songfest . . . Leonhart, Highland, rate Rhodes scholarship finals . . . And so to home for the holi- days . .. . HERR HITLER RESENTS Phi Sigs Nazi party . . . Phi Sigs don ' t give a damn . . . Dick Stabile plays for Women ' s Pan in Armory . . . Lieut-Col. Devore dies in Washington . . . Semester exams . . . SECOND YEARLY MOB-SCENE at the Field House — less acute this time ... Sir Arthur Willert talks at convocation . . . Teke ' s toss first frat formal of the year at the Morgan . . . Farm and Home Week at Ag school floods campus . . . EIC disbands . . . Penn State Whups Varsity couriers in famous long second . . . Gals don the pants for Gold Digger ' s Ball . . . JOY REIGNS AS th ' military boys rassle to the music of Jimmie Joy and THAT vocalist . . . Cagers close season with loss to Pitt, move out of EIC cellar (applause) . . . Sigma Chi ' s go Gay Nineties in cos- tume ball . . . Kampus Kruises . . . High school lads and lassies move in for state basketball tourney at Field House . . . More midsemesters . . . Michigan State drops U diamondeers in first game . . . MOUNTAINEER WEEK TEAM hies to the high schools . . . Sandburg slays students in convoca- tion . . . Student Union and Independents break loose and the Delta Gamma ' s show up in the red . . Coeds frolic in folk festival . . . Kappa ' s, Pi Lam ' s cop highest average crowns again . . . Greater West Virginia Week . . . Interfrat and intersorority sing a howling success . . . Black coffee and sleep- less nights — final exams . . . Commencement Week . . . Senior ball . . . Brawl . . . s ' all . . . Nuffsed . . .