DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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grams . . . Victory Bicycles ing the usual four-year course. And on the other, the townsfolk were treated to the sight of DePauw professors and students solemnly wheeling through town on bicycles. The problems of professors and students were not limited, however, to those of transportation. They had to roll out for pre-dawn classes and hurry dinner for evening sessions. In time, this ceased to worry zoology s Dr. Reynolds, who doffed his apron for Army Air Corps khaki. Also, sixteen faculty linguists, artists and scientists switched fields and began boning up on physics and math for Navy classes. Even the student body changed, the steady decline in male enrollment giving the women a decided preponderance. Ill ||lll!5«»

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StreamiLnecl Pro The war clouds that drifted over the DePauw campus seeped into almost all of the multitudinous compartments of Old Gold life and worked numerous changes, some of them emphasizing the earnestness of war-time college life, others merely humorous in their effect. On the one hand, students and faculty were introduced to an abridged semes- ter, adopted for the purpose of compact- Professor Martin and Winsey demonstrate t he popular method of solving the gasoline and tire problem. One for the books. Pro- essor Winsey tries to keep ' aheod of the pupils in his navy phys- ics class. No ' blackout here — blazeduringnightclasses in Harrison Hall.

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Dr. and Mrs. Wildman welcome another class to DePauw.