Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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The first of o long line of lines 0 0 Maw ln Presldent The firsf freshman ge?-Together, The YM-YW Mixer

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THE PRE IDENT' MESSAGE T This volume of The RECENSIO becomes C1 permonenT record of The liTe of Old lvliomi Tor The cicodemic yeor lf?-46-47. IT is symbolic oT The beciuTy ond spiriT of The Almci lvloTer which inspired The desire To honor her. The life of lviiomi sTudenTs is one of ocTion. In The processes oT educciTion sTudenTs opply Themselves in mony diTTerenT woysz They sTudy, They ploy, They promoTe exTro-curriculor ocTiviTies, They exercise iudgemenT in The monogemenT cind odvoncemenT of The mony sTudenT orgcinizoTions, They brooden Their minds in The clossrooms, They Trolic in poliTics, They compeTe in oThelTics ond sporTs, They issue publicoTions, ond They pc1rTicipoTe in The sociol liTe of The UniversiTy. Cherished memories of sTudenT liTe will linger longer Thon much of The fleeTing sTore of inTormoTion civoiloble during The Trying hours of The Tinol course exominoTions. Even These memories musT be recorded so ThoT os These poges unfold in The disTonT TuTure The recol- lecTions of The TirsT posTwor college yecir moy be freshly renewed. This is The yeor when olmosT Three Thousond veTerons hove Turned from Their comps To This compus. VeTerons who were crowded in WiThrow CourT ond rehoused in The Lodges hove demonsTroTed o spiriT oT Toleronce ThoT is emblemc1Tic of The very spiriT ThoT hos mode boTh Miomi ond Americci greoT. FciculTy members, Too, who hove been ill-housed, conTronTed wiTh overlooded clossrooms, ond who, sTill Tired Trom The wcirTime Teoching bur- dens, hove corried on overwhelming posTwor peoceTime loods, hove dem- onsTroTed The some spiriT oT persisTenT Toleronce ond splendid cooperoTion. Yeor ciTTer yeor sTudenTs come ond go. BuT compus scenes remoin The some os spring redecoroTes The buildings, ond The russeTs of ciuTumn cover The Old SlonT Wolk. These scenes become o never-To-be-TorgoTTen porT of Old Miami. This volume of The RECENSIO odds onoTher hisToricol yeor To The record of The rich heriToge of The pdsT, reveols Tolercince, reverence, humiliTy, humor, couroge, ond poTrioTism, reTlecTs crediT upon The sToTT ond upon Old Miomi, porfroys The enlighTened ochievemenTs idenTiTied wiTh Those ideols Tor which Tormer sTudenTs, ToculTy, ond TrusTees hove sTriven, ond odds new evidence of love ond honor To Mioimi. ErnesT H. Hohne, PresidenT

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Four hour chem labs and those riiroriohs! ahmfs First Year A new tradition-the sandwich man Glancing back over the year.. . fall of '46 . . . Miami men returned and campus once again resembled the good ol' days . . . registration lines . . . open houses welcome freshman women . . . we saw hundreds of new faces . . . and faces we've missed the past few years . . . classes started and the routine began . . . there were meetings, exams, bull sessions, bridge games, dates- all in the schedule. . .crowded campus. . . triples in the dorms and four hundred roommates in Withrow . . . soon we found a changed campus when the Miami Lodges went up over night . . . Vet Village population kept increasing . . . winter and the cold came . . . then Christmas and the snow . . . Junior Prom time arrived complete with the queen and Ray McKinley's band . . . those certain days brought on the usual epidemic of spring fever . . . and the spring hurried on into June, graduation . . . for the underclassmen it was, see you next year, for the seniors, so long and see you Homecoming . . .