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

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?????? • ••••• SHOULD WOMEN VOTE? How would they look filling out a ballot when we have the following illustrious example of how one filled out a Croaker information blank. THE 1919 CROAKER Name............................Vera Hartley............................. Home Address.........................Salem, Iowa........................ Class............................ Sophomore ............................ Fraternity......................Alpha Xi Delta........................... Literary Society......................................................... School Activities and Honors............................................. .................Principal Activity—Making class on time................ .....................Sub-Activity—Making passing grade................... ................Honors—Mt. Pleasant High School graduate................. So far as we know, everybody of College standing has graduated from High School, with the possible exception of some of the Seniors. One soul whom you can always train, Your willing slave, whose every force Is yours to use and answer for— Who is it? Why, yourself, of course. —Ex.

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THE 1010 CROAKER m m m founded 1918 Official Organ..........Bulletin Board Colors..................................Anything Dirty Flower .......................................Dandelion Slogan.................................“On to Chicago” Motto.............................“Ten Cents, Please” Aim..........To hear Billy Sunday and see a Burlesque GRAND PRESIDENT CLIMBING FENCE She tried to stop the publication of the Croaker but had about as much luck doing it as she is having in getting over the fence. LAMBDA CHAPTER THE GANG Frances Toothacre Mabel Walker Ruth Heppe Ruth Holiday Mae Shipley

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THE 1919 CROAKER No. He is not one of the characters of a continued story in the Cosmopolitan. When he came this fall he was all right, but now— THE SIX DAY SCHEDULE and you see the result. Oh, beg your pardon, we mean six day schedule of classes. As our friend the raven would say, “Nothing more”. WE DON’T WANT TO START ANYTHING BUT WE CAN’T HELP MENTIONING THAT —Mrs. Warhurst has no business Dodging about the campus. —Military Training affords the very best exercise we can get in school. —Ratliff makes good use of his car. —Ballcw is sadder. —We like Day’s style of collars and ties. —Schaffner ought to be in Iota Phi. —Feldman is a good student. —It’s pretty hard to keep the Croaker from coming out. Here's to the censor u-ith his Big, black brush: Who amputates and expurgates All our choicest gush. Our copy looks like Jim Jam Jems Before you get a look, But like the Literary Digest When his blackballs have been took. How does Calvin Richardson take married life? Ballew says “According to his wife’s directions”.