Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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%rftf n PJ The Junior-Senior Banquet, one of the highlights of the social season, is a great part of a great week-end. An ever-present nuisance and a characteristic scene are the innumerable lines. At the end of this one is a doctor and a hypo needle. Doctors, Inc., take a day from their play for a serious game of tug-of-war. A familiar sight throughout the year is that of some student paying the price of glory with a forced trip to one of the campus ' wetter spots. I WE REMEMBER

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THE THINGS After all is said and done, the last class has been met and the last bull session ended, the graduate can look back over four years that should be able to furnish topics for conversation for many years to come. Dances and drills, inter- mission parties and rat calls, and occasionally even classes, will be remembered and discussed, colored and exaggerated, until they attain the proper proportions of all college stories. And then, wherever Clemson men gather, these memories will recall the glorious days when men were men. No day is complete, or possible, without half the company dropping in for bull session, a Clemson tradition as old as the College itself. Each spring the government inspectors pay their annual visit. The Honorable James F. Byrnes speaks of | his experiences as Secretary of State. ' £) After an afternoon of drills and parades, an evening movie, and the familiar bull session, the student settles down with his books. ' i

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k FROM THE the beginning . . . Each September the campus is flooded by a wave of confused, bewildered and bewildering freshmen, and for several weeks until they fall in line the entire school is in the same dilemma. After a short period of conscientious work the new boy soon learns to be busy any time there is any work to be done, a trait which the upperclass- man is constantly trying to correct. The lessons learned by the fresh- man during his Rat year serve him in good stead in the remaining three years when he is in a position to give rather than receive. The life of a Rat is varied and interesting, and not all of the year is spent running details. The Rat Hop is the highlight of the social season for the freshman, and the crowning of the Freshman Queen climaxes a great dance. A bald plate to show their lowly position is the first mark of the freshman. During the first week amateur barbers crop up by the dozen. Freshmen are taught many things — among them how to stand at attention. A few hours of this and they walk like true soldiers. Comes Sunday night, and each rat begins counting laundry. Bright and early the next morning they all troop down to the cleaners and leave their bundles.