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

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THE 1919 CROAKER —Conservatory of Music, which used to be the main building of the old German College. It has been moved somewhere in Missouri, and the buildings left for IVes-leyan. Dr. Rommel, who is at the head of the department, is just a splendid man and I talked a long time with him—but I was scared at first. Talk about ghosts! IVe looked into the cellar of this building and everything ivas full of cobwebs and things. I expected a regular Klu Klux Klan to come out and get us any minute. Just south of the Conservatory is 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—

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THE 1919 CROAKER —German Chapel, which hasn't been used for a long time. Some day. the college authorities are going to remodel it and make a library out of it. It icill make a dandy library—and of course they will be using it then. Polly always gets in a hurry and literally dragged me from the campus and took me up town. On our way there we passed the—