Manchester College - Aurora Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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In outdoor gatherings students often shar- ed in many of the more active sports, a rough tug-of-war or a fast game of volleyball, enjoying the feeling of work- ing with the others around them as a team, or competing in friendly friction. Yet, there were many other diversions that occupied their time, ping-pong, for exam- ple, even some monopoly, or a brainracking game of chess. Recreation was a recognized, utilized and fully enjoyed part of college happenings. twelve

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Sometimes recreation took the students away from the books and campus routine. The annual outing at Camp Mack was all-school in fact as well as name. Its well-planned athletic activities attracted the majority of the community in inter-class competitions, as the juniors took the trophy. Again, an outing may have been a small group, perhaps in the college woods around a campfire, where the students caught in the moment of the stillness of the night and the fire ' s bright glow, the deep comradeship and sensitivity they held for others.

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Not all their pursuit of knowledge or recrea- tion can be placed into carefully divided areas. For in their activities program they put much of their time and energy. Here they found ex- pression for their creative abilities . . . some- times on the stage of a Tri Alpha set, perhaps in the sharp give and take of a fast debate, in the numerous musical activities on campus and in any of a dozen related fields. When people get together they are sure to have many different interests . . . the results at Manchester may be seen, for example, in more than fifty different student organiza- tions on campus. programs require practice . . . preparing for our town . . . mc vs. ball state thirteen