Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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CALENDAR mi lil liapiJen? An tlial ' wliat 1 tlnumlit too. wild knows what might happen. ' ' Tho next Monday, that was ahmit the twenty- second of September, instead of the regnlar as- sembly they held class meetins an believe me Epi, they are certainly an education. I went to the Freshman nieetin ' an ' it was surely funny to see them all with their green caps an green ribbons on. Y ' see, Epi, in those days the Fresti- inen weren ' t like they are now, but they were as intelligent lookin as the rest of the c illege people an ' so they had to wear green caps to distinguish them from the upper classes, ' special- ly the Sophomores. ■ ' Well, at this meetin they nominated those whom they wanted for officers an ' of course your old uncle was nominated but the next Monday when they had the elections was defea ' .ed an one, Russell Welker, from Idaho- that ' s his picture right there — was vic-toriims. The only rea--on he won over me was because he was from Idaho. Y ' know in that school if you weren ' t from either Idaho or (ioshen you weren ' t anything an ' as I wasn ' t fr un either place I had a pretty hard time. .Speakin of elections, about that timi the girls had iine for the A. W. S., . .ssociated Women .Students, an Vida Broadbent, bein ' already the vice-president of the student body was automatically the president, but l.ibby ( . ' ook was elected vice-president an ' inasmuch as she was from Idaho that explains how she got in. You can see, Epi. that the girls at the H, Y, U. weren ' t very slow. 1 remember right after the girls had their sensational election, the Block Y club came out before the public in the form of a skunk exhi- bition. ' Oh gee. Uncle Cy, talk about the wild an ' wooley west! Well, of course, Epi, I dont mean that just exactly the way it sounds. They calle l the new men that they took into the club, skunks ' while they were bein ' initiated. Ki e men were taken iu that time. Kay an Leuven. .SpeiU ' er Larson. Wesley .lohnson, ( arl Harris, an ' Wilford Mur- dock. . n ' speakin ' of initiations, the Theta Alpha Phi, a dramatic fraternity, came out with two or three Desdemonas. a couple of Othellos an ' one or two Ronieos on the first of October. My. Epi, that was certaiidy an interestin ' time right about there, The next Friday, about October third, lieth Ntaeser got his daily publicity stunt ovir in the form of his usual student body announc ment. Y ' know. Epi, I have cause to remendier that an- nouncement ' cause it left a distinct impression upon me. You can inuigine what it ' d be like to drag a good sized woman u|) a mountain like Timpanogos an push her down again, an in fact I could have been likened to the old grey mare, inasnmch as I wasn ' t what I used to be after going through an ordeal like that. But anyway, no vision of a hike like that came before me as 1 listened to Mieth ' s announcement of the fact that the annual autiunn limp hike would take place the next ilay an ' of course I deter- mind to take that hike, and to take ' Lizabeth Piigf Eleven

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CALENDAR The first day of school, which came on a Wednesday, was like a nightmare to me. No- body that I knew an nobody that knew me. We all went to assembly in the mornin an ' President Harris, that ' s him right there on the first page, got up an ' welcomed the students an ' then Merrill Bunnell an ' Vida Broadbent — oh yes, Epi, their pictures are there too — got up an as the president an ' vice-president of the student body made their welcoming speeches an ' before we knew it. it was all real friendly like. ■ ' By the time Friday came, things were begin- ning to smooth out a bit an I was sailin ' along fine. Friday was the official Hello day an ' everybody ' belloed ' everybody else an ' in as- sembly that mornin ' a fellow by the name of Ariel Ballif led in the ' Hello ' song. My. Epi. I ' ll never forget that song. It was grand! In the song everyone had to turn an sing ' hello ' to his neighbor an ' I turned — an ' Epi — there was ' Lizabeth Ann — Well, I sang hello to her the rest of the time. I kept a wonderin who she was an that night at the handshake — ■ ' The what. Uncle Cy? ' The handshake. Epi. They always called the first dance the handshake an it certainly was a shakin affair. The girls all lined up in gang formation an then the fellows came along an used a little mob violence. ' Lizabeth Ann was there an I shook her hand — fact is, I almost got fined for workin ' overtime an congestin the traffic. I never was the same after that an right then an ' there I understood what my dad bad said to me as I was gtttin on the train. Cyrus , he says, Cyrus, the B. Y. U. is a fine school for educa- tion, but it is noted for other things also. It is the place where I found your mother, it is the place where your grandfather found your grandmother an it — well, who knows what P ige Ten

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CALENDAR Ann with me. Well. I took her an ' I lived to rue the day. It was a wonder to me. though, ' cause I thought I never would live through it. the day I mean. I may have seemed nearly dead when we came down from Timp. but I was certainly re- juvenated when I heard that our Cougars had beat Colorado College in our first game of foot- ball with a score of 3-0. But it seemed that I wasn ' t the only one that felt hilarious. The upper classmen thought that it would be a fittin an ' proper way of showin ' how much our first victory meant to us by makin ' all the Freshmen go up an ' clean the Y the next Satur- day. Anyway, we were rewarded for our labors ' cause the next Monday was a holiday for Con- ference an ' the Slate Fair. Lizabeth Ann went up- to the city to take in all the sights, but after my labors at cleaning the Y an ' climbin Timp. I fell indisposed an ' stayed home an ' read the book by President Harris an ' Professor Butt that had just been published. I learned a lot I didn ' t know before but all the time I kept wonderin ' what Lizabeth Ann was doin ' an if she was gettin ' cosmopolitan — ' Unc, if you wouldn mind. Fd like you to talk so I could understand you. Gee whiz, how should I know what ' cosmopolitan ' means. ' Cosmopolitan ' , whoever heard of a word like that? ■■ ' ell. alright. Ephi. Y ' see thta ' s my college education showin ' itself. Well, to go on. I kept wonderin ' what Lizabeth Ann was doin ' an if she was keepin to the straight an narrow path in that wild and wicked city. She came home pretty soon, though, an ' set my mind at rest. It was awfully hard to concentrate on school after that an ' I surely welcomed the holiday that came the next week on Founders Day. That was certainly a big day at the B. Y.. Epi. e had a parade — I b ' lieve there ' s a couple of