Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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The Reason for it Alt . . . Men are now as valuable at Butler as ration stamps, for Uncle Sam has taken most of our boys and left in their places just more stars in our service flag. Of course, with so many male shoes empty around the campus, in the halls, and in the class rooms, the female of the species has tried to step in and fill these vacant shoes. As you glance through the pages of this book you will find that the girls are now heading many of the activities that the B.M.O.C. ' s used to carry through. The coeds hold many of the class offices and far out-number the eds on the student council. The little women are editing the Collegian and now they present to you this— your 1944 DRIFT. g;

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New Shoes Some of the past male population of Butler were able to step back into tfieir once empty shoes this year after they were released from the army. These boys and the other men who are still students have prevented Butler from becoming a typical girl ' s school. There are now 259 ellows and 669 girls who comprise the student body of our university. n spite of the war, many of the year ' s activities have kept on the move. The Freshman Rose Dance, Sophomore Cotil- lion, Junior Prom, and the Interfroternity dances were gala affairs as always. It was impossible to have Geneva Stunts, but the Fairview Frolic proved to be a very successful substitution. Even with the rapid metamorphosis of our college life during a war, Butler has kept alive her school spirit in all this changing scene.