Eureka College - Prism Yearbook (Eureka, IL)

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ere in Lida's Wood and Magdalene Hall have lived girls who are now in the Women's Auxiliaries of the various branches of service and girls who are Waiting for some cer- tain Johnny Doughboy to re- turn from the Wars. Q46 C-QWL 14.4 oo late for the first World War, Vennum Science Hall has taken a front seat in preparing prospective service men for modern and scientific warfare.

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Veteran of Four Wars This stately old building has three times before heard the tramp of marching feet as fellows from the student body answered the call to colors. This time, in Wox'ld War II, members of both sexes answered the call of duty and took their places among the ranks to do battle with the Axis. Erected in 1858, its mortar was hardly dry when it saw most of the men in college and one faculty member leave to battle in the war between the states. Again in its fortieth year, Remember the Maine probably rang through its corridors as the war cry of that period just as the nation now does its best to Remember Pearl Harbor. During the first World War the building stood 'neath the elms upon the campus and saw the mem- bers of the S.A.T.C., Student Army Training Corps, that was quartered on campus march ptlSC as they went to and from their classes and drills. This Corps was in addition to those students who saw active duty in other cantonments and overseas. Following the war the structure saw one of the greatest periods of prosperity in the history of the College. Although the student body of the college fell down to 142 during the war, in 1924 an all-time record was set for enrollment. In this the second NVorld XVar the college which centers around the Administration Building has an- other sag in enrollment. It is quite likely that the building will still be here to welcome back the re- turning studcnts who have seen service against the Axis.

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XV Q14 Me ffm, n the arena of sports We know as Pritchard Gym- nasium the boys now gone to battle have battled time and again in intercollegiate and intramural sports. It was here that many of them developed the fine bodies required for the ordeals of war. Burgess Hall has gone to war. At least it has felt the effects of wartime restrictions on heating, for in mid-winter it was vacated and the classes formerly meeting there were sent to the science hall and the chapel. Forced to take over classes held in Burgess, the Chapel Building is no longer just the music con- servatory and chapel. Except for chapel attend- ance more students make their way into it than ever before. , I w a ' I , ff , 'Eff Q