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

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THE 1919 CROAKER i ;! —■Main Building, but both of them arc built in such a quaint fashion and looking so very inviting, though I must confess there are lots of things I would rather do than study. The east room on the third floor used to be the chapel during the time of the Civil War, but now it is used for a museum. I should like to have a whole day just to go through it. And, horrors! Downstairs were some of the ugliest things. Toads! I can see them yet. They have the—

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THE 1919 CROAKER —Pioneer Building, which is awful old. By this time “Dud” and I were well acquainted and he told me something about this building. My! it must be a hundred years old—and they use it every day. It seems funny to think that when it was new one of the professors lived in one of the rooms upstairs ivith his family. It looks so small beside the—

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—College Bell in the middle of the campus, but they don't ring it any more. Isn't that a shame? I would much rather have it call me to class than an impertinent little buzzer. One year the fellows carried it clear out of town and it was there all winter—but the best was when they sent the clapper to Senator Harlan at Washington, D. C. first class mail, with all the postage due. IVasn't that some joke? The bell is real close to the—