Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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We Came Here to Work . . . ES, we knew when we entered college that it would demand plenty ot work on our part. After all, this venture ot becoming educated is no easy task. Although we may have telt rebuffed at times when our professors expected work of us, we had only to remind ourselves that classes and homework are the jiiw qua }ion of college life. This phase of Elmhurst College is our ccjncern in Chapter I, while the other important side ot our life here, the social, is relived in Chapter II. The setting for our learning, Elmhurst College, reveals itself to us in two ways. It is first of all, a cluster of buildings and lawns. But even a casual observer is not long in discovering the deeper significance of Elmhurst — its administration, faculty and students. Our picture of Elmhurst in this chapter, then, includes impressions of the familiar buildings, as well as of our capable administration and faculty. The learning process does not only take place in our classroom relations with the faculty members. Seven clubs, therefore, we designate as curricular, for they extend and augment class lectures. Here students of psychology, education, philosophy, sociology, German, Hungarian and Spanish meet informally to discover new aspects of their fields of interest. Last ot all, we talk about (jurselves -freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. These are the ingredients of our venture of learning. itfObUmOiinili jiP 1 11 ifiil MfflSiisi

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Symbol of Elmhurst Old Main Old Main . . . the building ot classrooms and laboratories, almost as old as Elmhurst College itself. . . on a typical day stretching and yawning with the arrival at bleary-eyed students tor 8 A.M. classes . . . bustling with between-chiss jocularity and smoke-clouded greetings, and then reposing to htty minutes ot cahn only to be reawakened at the end of the class period . . . listening to its own heartbeat — the tjuarter hour chimes becoming longer and more insistent until the next hour is reached and it breathes more easily . . . pausing at noon and at six o ' clock to peal a message to its friends, reminding them ot deeper values . . . harboring experiments ot future chemists and knite- happy biologists . . . encouraging lectures and discussions on Kant and Thurber . . . urging conferences with faculty members . . . sympathetic to balloting and the sale of dance bids, student directories, Christmas cards . . . sighing at the close of the day as the stragglers finish collecting mail and scanning the bulletin board. The Library . . . the morning rush at eight to get those overnight books in and still get to class on time . . . the shocked faces when told the book is out . . . studying and visiting in the basement rooms . . . the looks received when whispers become too audible . . . the crowded periodical stacks when termpapers are due . . . the efficiency of Miss Stickle, Mrs. Dailey and their assistants . . . the warm interest and untiring efforts of these librarians . . . the new ear- phone phonograph which our fines helped buv . . . the 42,000 books available for our use . . . the popular Closed Reserve shelf . . . the anticipated, regular breaks for a smoke . . . the irregular and spasmodic outbreaks of whispers and suppressed laughter . . . the rustle of the newspaper by those whose work is done . . . the glances at displays or anything to make up more time before settling down to an evening of study . . . the mad fiipping of pages (jf unread books before a test . . . the cramming and worried looks the night before finals . . . the nine-thirty adjournment to the S.U. Kranz Hall ... a link between the old Pro-Seminary and the contemporar - Elmhurst College, continuing in vitality after eighty years . . . gathering-place of town students in the lounge to study, relax, play cards . . . scene of club meetings where common interests are explored . . . the fijrmulation of student policies in committee meetings . . . the buzz of activity in the Speech Clinic and adjacent Speech offices and classroom . . . faculty offices lining the second-fioor hall . . . apartments housing maintenance families . . . the campus radio station WRSE which originates here . . . the popular Student Union store where students meet over cokes, malts and hamburgers . . . the clean room at the start of the da ' and the place that looks later as though hit by a cyclone despite all efforts . . . the TV set and the juke box competing foi- attention onl to be lost in the discussion of latest national elections. Center of Learning The Library The Campus OcrociEXAiUAX Kranz Hall jOQlhillilillnili JP itiOiilllMaSiisi