College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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FRESHMAN UNDERLINGS for a year are granted one day to make retribution-Sack Rush Day. The horse-and-rider contest, which is pictured, is the first of these events. Second is the tug-ot-war, and the final is a free-for-all over possession of a big medicine ball. Sophomores, better organized, won all three this year, thereby eaming the right to insist on frosh wearing dinks until Christmas. As usual, freshmen abandoned their hats before 'I'hanksgiving. THE ANNUAL WALK-OUT is a time when dining rooms close down and the whole college takes its evening meal picnic style. Men and women meet near the rock at the outset. They form in two lines and begin to walk out to Highland Park. When a whistle blows, men move up five girls to ioin a new walking companion. In a iew minutes the Whistle signals tor everyone to shift partners again. Then when the line reaches Highland, the couples end up eating their picnic supper together. ON THE ROCK stands a girlishly-dressed plebe. Sophomore court has found him guilty ot being a freshman. He is paying his penalty with an appear- ance before the whole student body. Other sentences for unfortunate first-year men have been mapping golf courses and counting tombstones. Scots Win Homecoming Tilt Homecoming week end, October 25-27, pro- vided a variety of entertainment for returning alumni. An all-college dance Saturday night with Eddie Paul's orchestra celebrated a Wooster victory over Muskingum, 14-3. Sat- urday night Outward Bound, first college dramatic offering of the year, projected Chrysanthemum-wearing grads into the here- after. ' Girls' initiation previewed the horrors of Halloween, when students went berserk, crashing the theatres, and providing interest for the local police. November 1, Holden Hall held the year's first formal, and four days later, the nation's voters disproved the saying, As Wooster goes . . . Dadis day, November 9, starred a full week- end. The Junior Prom took on new raiment as the J-Hop, Friday night, while an all-college Saturday night mourned a loss to Bowling Green, 26-14. A week later, Wooster closed its football season with an encounter with Ober- lin. During the season Wooster won four, lost three, and tied one.

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,198 Al. THE FROSH MIXER is always a gala affair. The Big Four planned this year's mixer around a nautical theme-the gym became the S. S. Green- hom. First Mate Gale Weaner is leading the Wooster opened its season by outpassing Manchester 13-7. On Saturday, September 28, Ross Hallamay's orchestra played for the first all-college dance in the gym. Sophomore court, in the meantime, com- menced activities. Cocky first-year men gar- gled soapy water and counted tombstones. College trustees turned down petitions for off- campus dancing signed by several score of Wooster students. October 5 marked the debut of the Cruisers, a new orchestra destined to newcomers in a song session. Frosh got blind dates home when the girls lined up on one side of the gym, the boys on the other, cmd the two lines marched out of the door together. become college favorites as Larry Grayson. In the chapel, Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, ex- pert on Thoreau, was the first guest speaker, October 10, Two days later Wooster visited Cleveland on Migration Day to see a stubborn Case team drive to victory 7-0, and several days later Big Four squads initiated an equally strong drive for funds. Male students over twenty-one hied to the Grill, local registration place, October 16, and received draft cards instead of cokes. I. REGISTRATION at the beginning of a new session is a tumultuous timc+students at- tempting to fit unruly courses into sched- ules, weary taculty attempting to straighten out confused neophytes. Freshmen and sophomores register with the counsel of their advisers, iuniors and seniors with the head of their department maior. Students register in tiers: seniors, the privileged, go first. while Irosh are last. This year. regis- tration fell off slightly, with the women students gaining sharply over men. Of an enrollment of 906. women exceeded men by thirty-eight.

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ON CONSCRIPTION DAY 105 Wooster men had to register. Dick Gernert writes the answers on his questionnaire while Coach L. C. Boles advises. Boles was an oiiicial in the college vicinity precinct. The Selective Service Act exempted all collegians from the drait until Iune. DR. PAUL SEARS. author of Deserts on the March, an outstanding professor of geology at Oberlin was a guest speaker in October. Here he is ioking with Dr. Bangham, head of the biology department. before making his talk. He lectured interestingly on the conservation of our natur- al resources. HOMECOMING DAY is traditional at Wooster. So is the rivalry which exists between dorms to see which ot them can decorate the front of their building with the cleverest display. Holden Hall and Warburton won this year. Here is the Holden entry. tThere is a picture of the Warburton display on page 1355. Turkey Day recess, November 20 to 25, saw many students depart. 'fThe Pennsylvania Railroad offers reduced ratesj . After Vacation, students returned to hear Erika Mann, WSGA speaker, discourse on foreign affairs. HALLOWEEN NIGHT Wooster fellows went to town. In traditional manner 200 men and a few women crashed the gates of Schine's theater to watch cr tree show. The Woos- ter police anticipated trouble, for they put on extra deputies iust for the night. The celebration was milder than last year when police resorted to tear gas to quell enthusiasm. Cagers Open Drills Coach Mose Hole in the meantime had be- gun drilling his quintet under Captain Pudge Hole, in preparation for their first encounter, with Miami, December 14.