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

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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—

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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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—Chapel. The students have to go every day at a quarter of ten for a short service and hear the announcements of the faculty. Polly says the students used to cut chapel something awful, until the faculty made some strict rules and made them come. The Seniors have to sit right under a dome-like affair, which makes a dandy place to let confetti and things down on them. I'd like to do it some time. When ive went out of the building, we went right through the big pipe organ, and came over to the—