East Carolina University - Buccaneer Tecoan Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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September 21: Dear Olc E. C. T. C, I ' m making pledge to you tonight : On every special day of tliis precious year of 1935-36, I shall record wliat you meant to me that day. Then wluii I yrow old and gray — shall I ever do that? — I ' ll take out my diary and we ' ll talk again aliout our best memories. But I shall not need this diary to recall today. — Does every opening day bring so much excitement. ' ' Girls, girls, girls, from ten states they ' ve hccn horning in today. Boys too, trying to sec which one ' s auto horn could greet us loudest. And what halls I Bags and trunks piled everywhere so that tonight we ' re all nursing bruised siiins. My cars nearly luirst too from shouts Hi Mary! Poor Freshies ! What green eggs they were I Yet by lunch they were all signed in, had been trotted to their rooms by bluc- badgcd Y ' s and had begun learning what college life was all about. Tonight they ' ve sliown tliemselves mere kids. While we old girls were holding forth about the summer doings, wails down the hall interrupted our discussion and announced the annual epi- demic of nostalgia. Most of us retired early to console the weeping Freshmen. Mildred McDonald became for the moment Niagara Falls. Joyce Harrell suggested that since the j)ipc water is muddy we cork uj) tlic lava tory and catch the tears for a sliampoo. September 2.5: The Freshmen registered today. What a tumult ! Funny that most of them would not agree that it M ' asn ' t so com- plicated after tlu y had gone through with all the red tape. This afternoon the faculty en- tertained the Freshmen, with a barbecue sup- ])er on back campus. All of them seemed to [30]

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CAMPU LIFE a n DIARY

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enjoy tin- f oo(l l ats. lint tin y will kno« n.orr how to Mppi-.-c-i.-i tc . ' l trc;it ( f tl,is kind altir two Wffks of 1 ;,.sl,. .uul . tlur la.Mn,-. y:.l.K- j concoctions. Skptember 20: L ' ))j)er classmen rc ;istircil today. The uproar was almost as bad as wlun Xylda Cooper found the rat under her jjiUow. Carolyn Brinkley. ' Lih Wilson. ••Judy Cole. Ethel Viek. and .lean Thomas announced to .all of us they had signed up for pr.ietiee teaching. I s ' pose we ' ll hear more about tliat. though. Rachel Stone told them she didn ' t care for practice teaching, but had signed up for everytliing except icthyology. October i: A husky fellow, full of pep, is what we need, and that is what we got. To- night at a mass meeting, we elected ,Ioe Ha- teni as our cheer leader. ,Ioc is a new student, but we believe he can boost the Pirates through a winning season. October 8: .lunior and Senior Primary Majors went to a weiner roast today. Every- body enjoyed eating weiners. Ruth Kiker ate fifteen and then wondered if one more would disturb her digestion. October 12: Practice teaching began to- day. .Joe Hall was so excited assigning her first lesson that her pupils thought she had a case of palsy. Ida Kay Hair sug- gested that her class read To A Sonny Lan- caster. One meek little boy raised his hand and quietly said: Miss Hair, there ' s no such poem. Oh !• ' quavered Ida Kay, I mean •To A Water Fowl ' . October 15: The Teachers in Ragsdale Hall invited their neighbors, the Co-eds, up from the cellar tonight, and gave them a house warming. Miss Wilson, Miss Mack, Miss Cassidy, Miss McKey, Miss Davis — [31]