Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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Yes, but there are more girls than there are boys, protested the alumnus. Yeah, that ' s true, agreed the freshman, but three of those girls were valedictorians of their graduating classes, and two were salutatorians. There wasn ' t one boy that was either of those. Well, the boys beat them in sports anyhow. Well, perhaps, said the student. There are fifteen freshman boys who played high school ball out for Beth- any ' s team, and there are quite a few who were on high school cross-country teams that will help our team there, but although twenty percent of the freshman class played basketball in high school, twenty-eight of that forty freshmen were girls. A bevy of chattering girls climbed up the Oglebay Gates steps and with the usual cheery Bethany ' Hello ' continued up the walk towards Phillips Hall. Good looking girls, commented the alumnus. You wouldn ' t find any better looking ones in Holly- wood. By the way, are there any prospective Helen Hayes or John Barrymores in the class? And how about oper- atic talent? Any Carusos? From the blood-curdling yells that well up from certain parts of this campus it seems quite unlikely that any Metropolitan Opera material will be found, but a- bout fifteen girls and ten boys have had experience in singing and quite a few of them show promising talent. But we have a lot. of instrume ntalists. At least thirty- five boys and girls played some sort of instrument in their high school band or orchestra. Some of them are really good too. Incidentally there are eleven freshmen on the Bethany band. That is over one-third of the whole band. And there are eight freshmen in the choir. You forgot the dramatic talent. That ' s right. Well, about twenty-four of the fresh- men did work of some sort in dramatics in high school. What have you been doing since you got here? Have they kept you busy? And how! said the freshman strongly. These placement tests are well named. They sure placed me be- hind the eight ball. I never saw so many tests. You didn ' t just have tests, did you? Oh, no, we had informal parties and receptions. They finished up Freshman Week with a reception held up at Pendleton Heights, Dr. Cramblet ' s home. That gave the freshmen a chance to meet their instructors in- formally and try a little apple-polishing before then- classes started. continued on page 23 1. Derm Dwellers trudge trunks. 2. Bevy of freshmen girls Inspect the town. 3. Bethany bound with bonnets and bundles. 4 Prom near and far. In this case, the Heights and England.

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Oh, say, young man, can you tell me some- thing about the freshman class this year? The speaker was a man in his late forties of ordinary dress and demeanor. He continued: Are there any freshmen in Bethany? I haven ' t seen anyone wearing a dink yet. The nonchalant in- dividual whom he had addressed flicked his cigarette down through the Oglebay Gates and replied, Sure there are. There are 168 of us. But we don ' t wear dinks this year. No dinks? We wore them. Enough girls to go around? The freshman grinned. Too many. There are 93 girls and only 75 boys. There will probably be a race to see who gets dates and who doesn ' t. Pretty big freshman class, said the man. Yep, there are only one half as many seniors as there are freshmen, and less juniors than sen- iors by twelve. But the sophomores have 119. Where do they all come from? Penn- sylvania, I suppose. Yep, agreed the students, a lot are from Pennsy, but over one-fourth of the United States is repre- sented. Thirteen states. They come from the heart of the South in Kentucky, others came from as far West as the farm lands of Indiana and Illinois. We also have some Yankees from New England. But you are right, most of them do come from the Keystone state. Seventy-three I think. The older man The Freshmen Flock In One Hundred and sixty-eight Freshmen in Bethany. Thirteen states represented. by Archie Conn and E. F. Brown smiled. You do have the figures down pat. Oh, yeah, I got them all, replied the fresh- man. West Virginia sent thirty. Even New York, which is quite a ways away, sent twenty-four. Ohio which is only across the river sent twenty- two. New Jersey sent six, Connecticut sent half that many, while Ken- tucky, Massachusetts, Indiana, and Illinois each sent two. There is also one from Michi- gan, one from Mary- land, and one from Virginia. Were there any exchange students sent from abroad? No, unfortunately not, smiled the fresh- man. We were sup- posed to get three of them, one from Germany, one from France, and one from Peru, but this war in Europe has made it too dangerous to travel. I guess that it has disrupted the whole exchange system because some of our graduates who were supposed to go abroad as exchange students have not been able to do so either. Perhaps if England accepts Hit- ler ' s peace terms we might get those ex- change students here by the second semes- ter. Let ' s hope so. Say, you sure have a lot of information at your finger tips. Are all the boys as smart as you? asked the alumnus. Huh, grunted the freshman, I should say so. Smart- er. And the girls are smarter than they are. There are eleven girls who were members of the National Hon- or Society, but only This is not trick photography; just twins coming to Bethany nine boyS made it. PAGE FOUR

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Most important topic of the day is war. Most bombarded people with war propaganda and ac- cusations of muddleheaded thinking and lounge lizard complacency are American college stu- dents. If the daily bushel of news releases to the Bethanian and Student Board of Govern- ors from a German student , anti-neutral- ity societies, and the like is any indication, it would seem that European interests are trying to pinch the American student by the nose, and carry him into a propagandists woodshop to have his mind whipped into shape for the great day when United States gets an invitation to play sucker again. Conscientious u n - dergratuates find them- selves in so much of a quandry as to what they ought to believe, that they begin to ap- ply Marjorie Hillis ' Live Alone and Like It advice to the war situation or else set up com- mittees for the investigation of America ' s mind- ing its own business in the German situation . Students develop a def- inite ho-hum to be used in 12- noring foreign atrocities. Signifi- cant is this remark in a student newspaper of Kansas State Teach- er ' s College in Emporia: We sup- port nothing. We are against ev- erything. We do not feel that we have sufficient information to justi- fy anything, especially effort. When confronted by such an attitude of dramatized non-inter- vention on the part of students. Dr. W. K. Woolery, head of the department of history, boils, (that is for Dr. Woolery). United States has come of age, he says. We must assume an intelligent interest and concern over foreign affairs. It is We Support Nothing Dr. Woolery and Dr. Shaw inter- viewed. Bethany ' s history de- partment attempts to teach unbias facts and lets students draw own conclusions. Bethanians should assume an intellegent interest and concern over foreign affairs. History background necessary for proper evaluation of war inci- dents. by Kenneth Underwood The author, a senior and ex editor of the Bethanian. true that we know little of what is going on in Europe today. The people of Europe, leaders of state included, are not even sure of what is hap- pening. But the college student can study the war in light of what has taken place in the past and arrive upon a fair interpretation of contemp- oraneous events, con- tinued Dr. Woolery. That is why history courses at college as- sume such importance today. This opinion was re- iterated by Dr. Chand- ler Shaw, professor of history. If we evalu- ate properly the war in- cidents of today we must have the back- ground which history gives us — particularly of the last century. Both the courses in Modern European His- tory and International Relations Since 1933 offered this year give such a background. According to both Dr. Shaw and Dr. Woolery no attempt is made to indoctrinate students with professors ' views. No professor is sure enough of the actual events to assume a position which he might wish students to adopt as their own. Any history professor recognizes the danger of drawing historical parallels or an- alogies, explained Dr. Shaw. Many history departments in American colleges have, since 1918, become little more than propa- ganda for the League of Nations, collective security, collaboration with Great Britain and France, or some kind of regularized interven- tion by the United States Govern- ment in foreign controversies, as Charles A. Beard charges in a recent Harpers Magazine article, Dr. Woolery was reminded. I do not believe that Bethany ' s history de- PAGE six