University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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NOVEMBER 1 9,3 8 21 - Universal is the institution known as the bull session. The first bi . one serves as a get-acquainted fest for all the boys in the house. learns a lot about the other in these all-night affairs. Ea ig ch Boarding house fare soon convinces the newcomer that hashhouse row is no misnomer. But after the first touch of homesickness to put his feet under mother ' s dinner table, he realizes that many before him have lived through it. ndx ss inafa . Y -d [.the oofy FROM BULL SESSIONS TO HASH TO MILDLY INTEL- LECTUAL LABOR TO DATES GOES THE LIFE OF THE INDEPENDENT. WHEN CLASSES START HE EVEN STUDIES When the newcomer cakes time off to sit down and read the paper and chat with his fellow boarders, it means that he has really dug in for the next nine months. In these quiet talks he learns much of his neighbor ' s real side that does not come out in a rough and tumble bull session. War was the topic of the day at that time. Independents have their social life as well as the Greeks, although in not such an ostentatious manner. By this time Bud ' s roomie ' s steady has told him about her own new roomie , Betty. So it ' s not long beofre Betty is nervously primping for her first date with Bud as the other girls in the house jokingly tell their experiences with blind dates.

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Board Room i m:r i: m i s .i i s i i i i. i: n QIKKLY, SPROUT NEW AND HIM Oil) FRIENDSHIPS AS THEY IHl. IN FOR NINE MONTHS EVERY SEPTEMBER HUNDREDS of students start tramping up and down Tennessee and neighboring streets. For these constitute the famous hash house row. And famous, or at least well known, it should be as well over half the University student body there make their homes. Living conditions of these independents vary from the best to such cases in which eight people live in a single small, ill- lighted and ventilated basement. Despite the difference in setting between the hash houses and the more palatial fraternity and sorority houses, these hundreds, no thousands, of independents live just as fully as do the often more monied and sophisticated Greeks. No rush week opens the year for them with all its palaver and tenseness. Yet they have every bit as great a thrill in the opening of school the newcomer in becoming adjusted to wholly different environment, the upperclassman in once more beginning an experience that never becomes old. These photos depict the digging in of the many who so proudly cherish the title of barb. Landladies always want too much for too little and roomers invariably want too much for too little. i Once a price is agreed upon, the next thing to do is start wrestling with Remembering her experiences of the year before, the landlady pointedly trunks. After that the other things seem easy. cautions her boys not to play havoc with the new wallpaper.

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22 THE JAYHAWKER An unofficial close is brought to girls ' rush week by the preferential dinners. Here the Pi Phi actives are celebrating the close of a hectic four days with their soon-to-be pledges , asui SHORTLY AFTER Labor Day a great metamorphosis took place on the old Hill. A hot wind blew over the campus, but undaunted, the sorority sisters arrived to open the houses for rush week. The houses had been cleaned and painted, but the work of dusting RABID It! Mil Its RAVE AT I ( I s 1 1 I- I- s V M ALL ENJOY I I WHEN IT ' S OVER. and sweeping remained to be done. But before that can even be started, Jane must know all about the cute By Tom Thompson boy that Betty met in the moun- tains during the summer. Tales of horseback riding were told, and, of course, the new crop of rushees had to be discussed. The boys had to do the same. No work could be Boys really worked to put the house in shape. These are the Sigma the girls, who did only a little polishing and dusting. These A.D. Alpha Mn ' s. They did not escape the rough work as did Pi ' s are making things shine to match their new paint job.