Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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It was late fall-early Oc- tober, really- b e f o r e th e leaves began to turn color and mound up in heaps around the campus. 0n the Saturday afternoons of that fall, thousands of Spartans scuffed through these leaves on their way to Macklin Field. The new stadium was two years old, and the record enrollment of 16,243 students gave it a workout, stamping, thumping and cheering the team on to a six-won, three-lost football season. Occasionally, between the foot- ball games, there were books and study and assigned reading. And away across the world, while we were cheering, you could hear undertones of human difficulty. Some echoes from these rumblings were heard on campus, as when the Chinese civil war foamed over the Nationalist government, and MSC's Chinese students lost their dollar subsidies. China was, for many American stu- dents, just across the dormitory hallway, or in the lower bunk of the same room. And because of this closeness, the very stunning facts of a foreign civil war came home to all MSC students. VEHI white. The ski club came out of hibernation. There were term parties. The hockey and basket- ball teams had bad seasons, but were offset by the winning boxing and track teams. For the first time, Spartan swimmers defeated the U of M team. But always there were books and study and more assigned reading. And that winter term, for the first time, people began talking about the H-bomb. This, too, came from a distance and only faintly, but the poten- tial power of the bomb seemed awesome. Winter was dismal and old at the end of March. It was a tired season, but spring was not far off. When spring term did finally ooze in with slush and mud and flood waters of the Red Cedar, we were immediately busy with the push- cart race, the water carnival, Bach and Brahms in the music festivals, the sorority and fraternity sings, and quite suddenly commencement. And commencement meant it was all over for the class of 1950-football, the autumn leaves, the books and assigned reading, the canoeing- all the memories of four years were wrapped up in a slender roll of sheepskin. We are alumni. 4 Bl. Then it was Winter-January, February, and ff t- :W cold. The snow drifted and was dull or glistening Y 1 f' , - 5 rf .X . tb N4 EQ- -5. Editor: Alfred R. Bransdorfer Business Manager: Ralph F. Lee K Nu 4 ichtgan State Collage in East Lansing la T

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