Clark University - Pasticcio Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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N ll lc1,..x1aIA Pfxslltt IO - 1976 lx A le A .P. Sept. 2 5. IQ 38. N Dr. WILLIAM Pamsser. has been elected to the chair of Economics at Oberlin XIX College and will assume his new post at the beginning of the second semes- , ter. Dr. Preissel has long been recognized as one of America's experts in the Q field of economics. He is only to remain at Oberlin for two years, at which if time he will go to Oxford as Visiting Professor, to return after one year to America and hold the Irving Fisher Chair of Economics at Yale Uni- sll versity. . in A .P. July 17, I9 38. N Mf. RAYMOND MEAD and Mr. SIMON SURABIAN have volunteered to take Vt over the drive for an all American Summer Camp Fund. This fund will be f used to give those children crowded in the cities an opportunity to have at least two weeks of country life every summer. A.P. Jan. 18, 1938. ' Mr. Louis SMITH will take over the Springfield Republican and it is expected that the paper will take on a new lease of life. Mr. Smith has been W long before the public, by means of his articles in the New York Times. N Much of his success he attributes to his experience while in college as'pub- licity agent of a city paper which gave him ample opportunity to observe and ff study conditions of society. 5. lx i Now this ingenious paper is of necessity brought to a close and though this prophecy may be in error to a certain extent, it nevertheless in the mam lx followed those outstanding characteristics of the individuals above mentioned. ii We are upon the threshold of achievement, and as the most versatile class 5 that has ever graced this institution, we feel certain of success. It IS hoped ill that those who follow in our footsteps, and tred where we have trod, will N obtain inspiration. ill Q We may build more splendid habitations, ll Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures, N But we cannot buy with gold the old associations. by -Longfellow. ll li N .ly N .tl C9 K K 54 Ai' moi

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i x leisure PAs'1'1cc1o 1112, cap and a bright red Bohemian tie to match! We shall never forget the scoffs, the jeers, the laughs we received while passing through the streets with our regalia. That first autumn was the most impressive in our entire college career. We were a lot of goggle-eyed freshmen, wondering what it was all about . There was a bewildering series of class-room lectures, intelligible and other- wise, of dining-hall dinners, laboratory periods, Y receptions, Fine Arts lecture courses, college plays, letters from home, gym classes, debates, Glee Club concerts, Clark Nightsi' and Bohemes. Soon we wondered not only what it was all about, but where we were. The rapid succession of events was beginning to overwhelm us. We saw that we must draw limiting lines, that our activities must be concentrated in channels most profitable and pleasant to us. As a novelty and help there came the fraternity rushing season. How thrilling it was to feel that you were being competed for by more than one fraternity, that they had especially devised rules and regulations to get men like you into their organization! The rushing season over, the select were subjected to initiation ceremonies unexcelled in their ingenuity and barbarity. Then came the great divisions in our class, socially and intellectually. The fraternities rivalled one with the other for the membership of the best students, or athletes, or the most talented, as the case may have been. Such fortunate individuals quickly made their choice, and henceforth were of their own separate camp. At the same time we were being oriented in our studiesg some going the precise mathematical way of science, others the romantic road of English and the fine arts, and some entering the newly created field of geography. Yet as a unit the class was organized under Bert Hooper an able leader. We were no mean class for, at the rope-pull which was to decide whether we were to wear the caps and ties for a month longer or else take them off immediately, under the captaincy of Long-Jim Kalijarvi we hauled the sophomores into University Pond and settled the matter in our favor. Clark was then in a period of adjustment. An administration of great prestige had been replaced by one of equal ability. There were the critics, and trouble-makers, and unfortunate incidentsg there was discussion df a merger with Tech, but matters were not pushed and Clark weathered the storm. The transfer of several esteemed professors to other colleges, and the death of the well-known Arthur Gordon Webster cast a gloom over the school. There was inaugurated a new marking system and the number of hours required for graduation was raised from IOS to l2O, thus making our class the first to go on the four-year schedule. ' That very unsettled first year was brightened by the first class banquet held in Boston. To avoid discovery by snooping sophs we secretly gathered at a downtown corner on a beautiful spring evening and boarded two busses. Expecting interference from the sophs we were armed with two-crates of pre- war eggs. Under the delusion that the informed sophs were aboard a trolley car which passed us in Marlboro some of our vigilant members who were practicing for the baseball team threw a few of the ancient and honorable eggs into the trolley. Blissfully we proceeded, little knowing that after a successful banquet at the Hotel Lenox we would be stopped by the police at Marlboro and released only after we had promised to pay the slight damage cost. The freshman year passed quickly with its never-to-be-forgotten first li in 'zfasiaff i331