Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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f The Young Men’s Christian Association at Wesleyan is one of the most potent factors in promoting a spirit of fellowship among the student body. It is only through the efforts of this and the Y. W. association that the members of different classes and organizations are brought together for religious purposes. At the beginning of each year a joint reception is given for the purpose of getting acquainted. About the middle of each year the Y. M. gives a Booster Banquet for the purpose of promoting fellowship among Wesleyan men. At these feasts, toasts are made, songs sung, yells given and Wesleyan spirit aroused anew. And every man leaves with a more sympathetic and brotherly feeling toward both professors and classmates. The Y. M. C. A. has weekly meetings where they have some Christian worker address them on live and practical subjects. These addresses are generally given by members of the faculty, or by one of the local ministers. The two Christian Associations have a furnished room in the main building, where their cabinets meet weekly for devotional and business meetings.

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 vi fr o V'.VA Hello, yes. Why, Mary, is that you ? Yes, do come up this afternoon and go to Y. W. with me. Oh yes, the Y. W. has just gotten along fine this year and has done such splendid work. I really don’t know what we would have done when we were Freshmen, if it hadn’t been for the Y. W. girls. Why, I should say so! Yes, they met every train and took us to our boarding places and we just couldn’t feel strange or ill at ease with them after the opening reception, which this year took the form of a “Kid-party.” Yes, indeed, it was so informal, you know. And there was the joint Y. M. and Y. W. reception and the college carnival, and— Don’t we do anything but play? Well, I guess we do! 1 just wish you could have attended some of those wonderful meetings when Mrs. Stevenson was here—we just couldn’t help being inspired to big things. Oh, are you? Well, I won’t bother you any longer then. Yes, I’ll meet you this afternoon at the main building and then I can tell you about the big box supper, and the Wesleyan Boom and our splendid devotional meetings, and all the other fine things the Y. W. is doing. What? Oh, yes, I want you to meet all those fine Christian girls. Oh, yes— Yes, the meeting’s at 4:15. Yes, all right—goodbye.