DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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From Seaman To Ensign To rise from an apprentice seamen to cm ensign involves hard work, but that coveted stripe and commission in Uncle Some Navy are an adequate reward For the months V4235 spend in training. For all the sailors enrolled in DePauw, the V312 unit is the First lap on the long road to novel oHicership. Here they received their basic instruction in such Fields as mathematics, science, and naval theory and organization After completing their training at DePauw, V5195 are sent to ROTC training centers, midshipmen. schools, or medical schoolseond on to eventual oFFicership.

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CONTRIBUTING TO THE WAR EFFORT With war come socriFices. And DePauw students have entered whole-heartedly into ac tivities which will bring peace closer to 0 chaotic world. DePauwites have given their blood to save some life on the for-Hung bottle Fronts, and they have contributed generously to the War Bond drives. China, in her desperate struggle, received aid from students through con- tributions to China War Relief, and coeds have acted as nurses aids to counteract the present critical shortage of trained nurses. Depauw has established her Home Front. 14

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16 Sororities and Fraternities portant to college men and women. DePauw's sumptuous sorority organizations that are so im- row and palatial Fraternity houses their picnics, parties, dances, and serenades make up a large part of DePauw 5 social life while they encourage, too, more serious, constructive thinking.