Guilford College - Quaker Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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DEANS OF THE COLLEGE MRS. MILNER AT FOUNDERS . . .

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PRESIDENT MILNER . . . Freshmen, the faculty and old students of Guilford extend a greeting to you as you become a part of our student body ... we wish you, as members of the class of ' 44 — four years, but no more, of congenial life at this college. WAS FRESHMAN WEEK

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FRESHMEN ARRIVED . . . and at Cox, Archdale, and Hobbs, along with the boys from town. Regimentation, per- haps: the catalogue called it induction. Then induction it was, into life at this college, subse- quent to matriculation. hlordes of people tracking in, daring parents who braved things along with their offspring. It was whether Junior would be taken care of that these parents were doting upon. And Junior was, with gray and crimson ribbon at two bits a clip. That sort of thing. Then there were the upperclassmen with the ask me looks on their faces, appearing In- formative until one did. So that first week back In September was bedlam. Some hundred and fifty recruits, mutually be- wildering, mutually stepping on toes, tried par- ticipating at once in the unholy rite of registra- tion. Results were painfully typical. Not simple for veterans, registration held little meaning for the freshman. And it got little sympathy from him. Founders rocked with his echo — then the removal to Mem. Two questions hounded stu- dent assistants. What ' s the sense of this, any- way? from where the mob was backed up in the hall. What ' s it for! hlours in line, and not even bread at the end. Then the tortured Who do I see now? of those whose Ingenuity, or mamas, had got them into the mill. The extreme brilliance of afternoon sun — five o ' clock. Ninety per cent of the Frosh-to-be had seen everybody and signed everything. Through — well, practically. Just see the treasurer, then . . . One ' s voice trailed into blissfulness. One learned, however. It takes time to spend money at Guilford.