Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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MEMORIAL STADIUM plays host to Lafayette in 1924 in the first game every played there. OLD MAIN, the heart of Bucknell, before and after the disastrous fire of 1934. the campus which has made the Bucknell hello a tradition as strongly enduring as the brick buildings. (lrtTP mS0XTB the currents of thought and feeling and internal development of the University was the evergrowing conflict outside the United States, but when war struck, the campus was mentally and physically prepared for the catas- trophe. Fraternity houses stood empty and silent as Bucknell men for the fourth time in one hundred years went off to war. Sad farewells . . . fewer coed activities . . . members of the Sem in- tent on the problems of a traction splint canning at the Evangelical hospital . . . and in July 1943 the bellbottoms and leathernecks marching into the buildings of the men ' s quadrangle and the lives of the lonely Sem inhabitants. y 1943 Bucknell had contributed not only its men and its facilities for the V-12 program, but also its president, for Dr. Marts had become a captain in the Coast Guard, and announced his resignation effec- tive June 1945. Jl 3 year 1945 brought with it the greatest of all gifts — peace. President Spencer, inaugurated in June 1945, began facing the problems of academic reconversion. The V-12 unit was disbanded in June 1945 and the V-5 ' s left on February 28, 1946, while veterans in ever increasing numbers began flocking back to the Bucknell campus to continue the educa- tion which they had interrupted to serve their coun- try. Formal dances, spring vacation, tweeds, and serenades are all signs of the reconversion to peace, but under this carefree veneer is a sober and mature realization by administration, faculty, and students of the tremendous problems of rebuilding a broken world. tWM. ' C President Spencer ' s inauguration, former President Marts said, When I shall hand the seal of Bucknell over to President Spencer, it will be with great trust in him, and with great assurance for Buck- nell ' s future. Dr. Herbert Spencer is fulfilling that trust by continuing the Bucknell tradition of a sound liberal education. Our university is on the threshold of its second century of constructive existence, fac- ing with the rest of the world, a new age — a new era of peace and development. CLARK HINKLE, leading scorer in the East, 1929. CARL G. SNAVELY, BuckneU ' s famous football coach, 1927-1934. DR. HOMER P. RAINEY who, at the age of 36, was one of the youngest University Presidents in the country — 1931-1935. M i

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f,». «J!«li«»« ' t W»I DR. EMORY W. HUNT was President from 1919 to 1931 when Bucknell ' s athletic teams ranlied Ail- American and when the University held the 7Uli Anniversary Pageant. SOPH-FROSH Scrap, 192! — one of the good old Bucknell traditions BUCKNELL BEAUTIES— the Queen and her court at May Day, 1928. M fs this time several college fraternities had al- ready established themselves, and a chapter of Pi Beta Phi, the oldest national fraternity for women, had been founded on the Bucknell campus. Within ten years the number of sororities had increased to four, and new buildings were gradually being put up to accommodate the increasing number of students. Ci JT C C3 J 4 started off normally in 1914, but by spring the scarcity of farmhands had begun to draw students away. Finally in 1917 World War I burst upon America, and Bucknell ' s enrollment of 524 students dropped to 117. Fraternities were discontinued for the duration, and because of the high emotional feeling German was dropped from the col- lege curriculum. C JIJL C? Jl President Hunt ' s installation in the fall of 1919 came the beginning of a new era at Buck- nell. The rumbling of guns had scarcely died away on the western front when the boys started returning. It was not long before the Rah Rah college days of the roaring twenties were in full swing with girls shorn of their locks, boys fussing at the Sem doors, Theda Bara playing to campus audiences in the Lew- isburg Orpheum, and dinks and green buttons worn by the frosh. GtXp nPIIf IS continually, the University enrollment topped the thousand mark, and with the enlarging activities of the students came new organizations. Honorary fraternities were added to the list of scientific societies, sororities and fraternities grew in number and new campus publications were added. JlV U Jl came the crash! The end of the decade of expansion and reconstruction found many students with their dreams shattered. Under Presi- dent Homer P. Rainey, who remained in office from 1931 to 1935, came extensive changes in curriculum for the Bucknell students. In order to become Direc- tor of the American Youth Commission, President Rainey retired from office, and Dr. Arnaud C. Marts was elected acting President. In 193 8, having become President, Dr. Marts emphasized the friendliness on WOMEN ' S SENATE, 192!— need we sav more! COMMENCEMENT Exercises in the men ' s quad under President Hunt ' s . dministration.

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hWTUIA ' .W rKIca»ri K n3;| n»9 SK p(»efEffi JXtfCtfr UAa9iS« ?«!J DR. ARNAUD C. MARTS at home. Through his work as President from 1935 to 1945, Bucknell is able to start her second century free from debt. WATERS swirled high around L.irison Hall in the flood of 193 6. PRESIDENT MARTS laying the cornerstone ot Davis Gym. Through such projects as this and the erection of the Engineering Building Bucknell expanded greatly in this decade. UNDER THREE FLAGS, the Christian, American and Bucknell banners — a symbol of the Bucknell Way of Life. THE CLASS of ' 46 at their first Homecoming Day, 1942. THE MARINES HAVE LANDED, 1943— officers and men conferring with President Marts and Commander Fleming. THE CHRISTENING of the S. S. Bucknell Victory on the West Coast recognized Bucknell ' s wartime contribu- tions. BUCKNELL ' S V-I2 Unit— lasted uniil February, 1946. -SSsS M% ' .,; ' ' -