Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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Hail ! The Forgotten Man Rush week is over, the upper classmen relax and remember — Freshmen! I ask you a favor! Won ' t you stop for a moment — only a small moment — it ' s all I ask — and remember the forgotten man, the upperclassman. He ' s right here among you — so, someday, take a look around you, in chapel, say. Behold him — sitting there. Take off your dinks and place them over your hearts for the small moment I mentioned. It ' s the decent thing to do. It may surprise you to hear that such an animal as the upper- classman exists, but he does. Statistics and the Admissions and Per- sonnel Office have told us there are, en- rolled in Bethany. 119 sophomores, 44 jun- iors, and 56 seniors. Amazing, isn ' t it? You are 168 strong, and, I might add, self-sufficient. You have a right to feel that way, I suppose. All summer long professors turned pro- moters, have been chasintr over hill and dale, wearing out the best products Good- rich has to offer for the pedal extremities of the automo- bile. Time, money, and en- ergy has been spent in per- suading you that Bethany is THE one and only college and you are THE only ones worthy of populating her halls (Gateway (to) Helwig, Phillips and Cochran). And speaking of halls, two professors were summarily ejected from their hearths and homes in order to make more room for the incoming class. The vacated houses were joined together (effect okay in spite of dire pre- dictions) and we are now to pretend that it ain ' t never been no other way. When you arrived at college, you were feted, fed. Also, tested, of course: no doubt your first inkling of your by Marilynn Roberts future oppression. Furthermore, you were too new and dazzling for the world worn and tarnished upperclassman. He was kept away from you, shunted off downtown to find sustenance, perhaps even forbidden entrance to town (oh drastic! and perhaps not true. Cer- The author is a senior majoring in English tainly, he wasn ' t welcome, poor soul). Then he was admitted to your sacred presences and had his turn at exulting your already sky-high ego. Remember how you came to the final and seem- ingly irrevocable conclusion that you were God ' s own gift to the world — (if we don ' t think so — just ask you) ? There ' s a lot of you, now, 168 of you THIS year. But. whether you know it or not — that THIS has a pessimistic and ominous sound. How many of you will move into that sopho- more section NEXT year? Think you ' ll be able to fill it, my proud Freshmen? I doubt it. Why, this year ' s juniors added up to 82 when they were sophomores. Lookit them now. Depression, huh? Oh, you think it can ' t happen here? Wait and see, babes, just you wait. We upperclassmen know what it ' s like — seeing our numbers decrease each year. Where do they go ? Well, any number of colleges and universities have Transfer from Bethany Col- lege registered in their offices. Two former Bethanians are doing library work this year. Oth- ers are doing office work. Then some have gone and taken the big jump, the final blow, I mean marriage. We won ' t investigate the personnel of various and sundry breadlines, but we venture — uh — nothing. So, kids, take a lesson from that junior class. They ' ve been robbed. And also, ma frans, another small warning. Those pledge pins are anchored now. May I warn you of what is to come? Thanks. You ' ve heard, no doubt, of pledge work? It ' s a combination of manual labor, ego deflation, and expense saver for the fraternities and sororities. Then there ' s the small matter of Hell Week — an interesting title. It ' s one of those things (quote) anything can hap- pen (unquote) . It has its place: through the years to come the meliferous tones of Twelve o ' clock — all ' s well — no pirates on the Buffalo resounding from yon Reservoir Hill, will linger in your memories long after sum, es. er, etc., have long since departed. Your memories of your fra- ternity and sorority house will be mingled with the poignant odor of dust mops, the industrious continued on page 21 PAGE NINE

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Letters from home Is Cl) OtV. Your entry into college is so momentous an event in our lives that I feel I want to write you a few words of advice. We here at home have a great stake in your future. If it is happy and successful your mother and I will be content, for it will fulfill our hopes and dreams and justify the years of struggle and planning and the sacrifices we made that you might have the opportunity for higher education. From now on, you are largely on your own. How well you adjust to your new environment and what you learn will determine how success- ful you will be in later life. College offers you three things: Knowledge, friends, and a chance to develop some skills. Starting with the latter I urge you to take part in extra-class activities, if they bring you pleasure. Determine for yourself which activity has most value and interest for you. Then go out and give it everything you have. Don ' t attempt to be in everything. Do one thing well and others will follow naturally. If you attain prominence in activities or ath- letics, drink gladly of the joy it brings; but re- member that, four years from now, there will be no one on the campus to whom your name will mean anything. Even the great are soon forgotten. Don ' t hold your professors in awe. Cultivate friendships with members of the faculty. Finally, always remember that the primary purpose in going to college is to get an education. If you finish your four years of college without having developed a love for learning and acquired an intellectua curiosity these years will have been a failure. If a man empty his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. Remember this. As ever, Dad. JJear JJciUCjkter: So you ' re really at college. Certainly, it should be one of your great- est experiences. Dad ?nd I know that you ' ll be true to our hope. All that we ask is that you be true to your- self, that you make yourself the finest, broadest, most thorough, and most thinking individual possible. You will find it easy to slip into the habits of those around you ,and, if their habits are what you sincerely want, then slip. But first, take a little time out to think. Don ' t be a- fraid to be yourself — people are thankful for an individual. You asked about joining a sorority. If you will be happier, dear, Dad and I say, Go a- head. But if you join a sorority, we want you to keep open-mindedness and tolerance. Don ' t build a barbed-wire fence around your sorority sisters, or pin a No Trespassing sign on your heart against other friends. Become interested in campus activities, but not to the exclusion of the wider world around you. Read a newspaper and some current litera- ture. Keep in touch with the world. Take care of your health. Don ' t burn your- self out now; you don ' t want to feel like an old woman when you graduate. You ' ll acquire poise, and lose self-conscious- ness when you think of other people ' s happiness first. Charm and personality spring from your consideration and thoughtfulness. You ' ll find these by thinking first of others, rather than try- ing to play the lead yourself. Your loving Mother. The rural delivery PAGE EIGHT

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Comes fall, comes the first Bethanian, and, as a natural consequence, comes a general preview of the sports situation here at Bethany. After two weeks of feeling the pulse of the campus in re- gards to the opinion of the student body as to how we will do this year — your correspondent has found that the tick- er is going at an alarm- ing rate, and the diag- nosis would be a severe case of optimism. The only apparent remedy seems to be continuous encouragement with no sudden let-down. At this stage of the game, the general opinion is that the patient will pull through nobly. Enough for literary flights! Let ' s get down to some facts as related by Coach Knight in re- gards to football and Coach Boettcher in re- gards to cross-country and the not too far dis- tant track situation. At the time this article was written the World Scries w as in progress, and. as a result the writer just about wore himself ragged trying to find the above named football mentor. He finally caught Boettch when he was cornered in the barber chair having his eyebrows trimmed and his mustachio clipped, and could not escape. We are assuming that by now everyone is acquainted with the football schedule, and if he isn ' t. the Moo Moo Moos will get him if he doesn ' t watch out. There is one new school being added to the schedule this year and two victims of last year are bein£ dropped. Possibly a few pertinent information facts about Heidelberg, the newcomer, might fit in here, as some may not know much about her. Heidelberg College of Tiffin, Ohio, is a member Preview of the Bison by Ed Elsasser Coach Knight and Boettcher inter- viewed. More determined spirit among footballers. Twenty-five Frosh turn out for cross-country team. First action on Rine Field where the Bison beat Westminster 7-0 C!X The author of the Ohio Conference, of which conference they were champs in 1930. We have signed a two-year contract with them and will play there next year. It is a co-educational institution with 168 women and 246 men, about the same size as Bethany. The teams dropped this year were Hol- brook and Morris Har- vey. In regard to the team itself, this year there is a better atti- tude among the men on the field. A more de- termined spirit than was apparent last year exists, which is a hope- ful sign. Rine Field, should the weather not make too soggy a mire of it, will be the scene of all our home en- gagements. No further improvements are planned as yet, al- though there is still considerable work to be done on the field itself. There is also planned an athletic building and running track. A couple of surprises showed up in t h e Westminster game. The first, which was rather expected, was the fine perform- ance turned in by Stitt, Harris and Myers. The other, which struck most of us like a bolt from the blue, was the fine performance turned in by the band. Dr. Weimer. should be in for a back-slapping session for the organization he has turned out. May we make an aside here, we hope the good work keeps up not only for football but also for the whole year. Although nothing definite has been done as yet. Dr. Weimer was overheard in the bookstore re- marking that he was working on some sort of uniform for the band. At least caps and capes. Am sorry that no further information is forthcom- ing, but just as the conversation began to get specific one of the new profs walked in and I lost all interest in bands, uniforms, etc. WBm PAGE TEN