Central Methodist University - Ragout Yearbook (Fayette, MO)

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'5The freshman pajama parade was one of the gaudiest affairs' ever. A few nights before, there was a little affair when some freshmen raised a flag and painted an upperclassman. Johnny Wallace, but it was harmless compared to some of the other battles being won and lost on the gridiron by the green and black line. .lVPIilll8I' ruin nur snnu nor slvvl . . . Pa ur I 1 The football squad was not the best Central ever had. but it had its great moments, moments that were worth celebrating with bonfires. Wie had a very patriotic sports editor of the Collegian who picked Central con- sistently. but they did not quite live up to his great expectations. We had a sort of musical battle between the old tried and true school song, 'On Old Centralf a re-hash of 'On VVisconsin', and a new tune written by our own Bob Stepp, called 'Hail Victorvi. The home product finally won, and we all tried to learn the words and tune to that as well as to our beautiful alma mater. For ll'llPl'6 God bull! 11 CIIIIITII. llmre lhe rleril will also build ll rlzapelflflartin Luther .P 'rv ui'

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under Round Robin Smarts direction with a couple of 11ew players added to the ranks. Another sign that school was starting was the rejuvenation of the :Xnderson-Clingenpeel feud with the niusic prof and the coach trying to entice students to their own organ- izations. 'TX 11ote of reality about the things in the outside world eanle when we heard that the lroys in the National Guard would he sent dow11 into the wilds of Arkansas on November 25 for a year's training. The date was later changed to two days hefore Christ- mas. and hy that tiine a large nuinher ol' the hoys were not associated with tlonipany 'Xl' any longer. Yes. son. I was a slacker. and lucky at that. You I't'll19IlllJ9l' that hand we saw' last fall with all the pretty girls leading it and the old director with the worried look walking along heside it? lle had the ancestor of that hand when I went to Central. and the foothall games were worth going to only to see the hand. 'Ilhe flag-hearers and twirlers of lflltl were just as pretty. too. as they have been lnefore or since. . , , lxlflwr' ll 1' 1 'nw-,y ffl 1.111 f'l'f',clfl1mH litlflllllll l'lll'tl1lt' lfllllllt' llf wolur ulnl rnllwlx HlH4Il.N'1 l'ully'pfrlvxfl!f1HHl1f1f.N'tll1f1'Hl limlx' li':':'1'f:llorf. Hum! .vlwpx out Ill Nlwillo rmllwflr-rr.: ,hula lfrrffrlf :mtl ljlltll' llrlfrrfllx' HI ll em florrn rlf ,', Hr'ful1l1':lxl nt illtl Pugi' 10

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I1- ,,.-- 1 . QAM... W., fy, . M . t Kgfifj.-.Lit , - ,a I7 slaps In Nfl-l'lll'l' Iiirlh of 11 Ifuqorll .vrznpxlml for resnlls see page 131 The national election came along about that time, and since that was back in the old days when some people thought that Roosevelt' could be beaten, it caused a great deal of excitement. We even had a poll about it in chapel. and the students showed the faculty that their political knowledge was better by picking a winner by a slim margin. The faculty voted for-what was that guy's name? Grover Cleveland? No, it wasn't quite that long ago- Willkie, that was his name. l never heard of him. He didn't fade nearly as fast as the date bureau the house-councils tried to get started that fall. They tried pairing up blind dates sight un- seen for about a month. and didn't make a single engagement. lt was most disheartening. Part of tl1e reason it failed may have been that the football coach had put a 11o-dating rule on the squad and then started them all growing beards until they won a game to guarantee that there wouldn't be any dating. They shaved the beards oil' after a few weeks and got to have so111e dates before the year was over. Dr, William Lyon Phelps came along on the lyceum program and told us to stay interested in everything. He said he was even interested in women's hats and everything in a newspaper. Oh, did you have newspapers? Yes, we did, and the college paper was a good one, except for the times it exaggerated a little here and there. There were lots of pictures in it. and the style of writing was so breezy and well done that it was worth reading even when there wasnit any news in it. We had a draft for men between 21 and 35 to start the selective service program. and 62 boys and 8 profs had to sign their names 011 a card and send them to Uncle Sam. No one had to go before school was out, but in March we lost 'Cabf the boy who did all the work' around the boys' dorm. Did you play football. Daddy? but those of us who eouldn't got to play a lot of intramural football and other sports like that. It was lots of fun, and because we knew our op- ponents so well we wanted worse than Pug: 12