Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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Heav Chimeficlasstime 5 E VVhere's my pot? Got your number four schedule card? 'QI-Iey, where is this Heavilon Hall, anyway?', Freshmen, having arisen at 6:00 AM for their first Monday morning eight o'clocks, walk into class twenty minutes late. Breathless and con- fused, they question the validity of the chiming clock in the tower. Upperclassmen also straggle into class late, but itis not due to their confusion about classes. Perhaps a Wee bit of the morning after the night beforei' or an extra cup of coffee at the G and B is the reason. Even though the walls of our soc class have been Kemtoned a beautiful light green-psychologists say that it makes time pass faster-we still nod and cloze through lectures, movies, and class discussions. Alert sophomores take reams of notes, ask clever questions, and generally raise the class curve, while senior 10's smile contentedly as they play a couple of rubbers of bridge in the back row. VVe meet many new eds and coeds as we Walk from English on the ag campus to the quonsets for chem- istry, but we feel we are better qualified for guiding campus tours than attending classes-certainly more prepared. In the fall we watch familiar buildings being torn downg in the winter the little tractor with the whisk broom on the front throws slush all over usg and in the spring we eye the convertibles lined up in the State Street parade. What Purdue would have missed without the spirit of one brick higher.

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It's Activities Time llIusic, lights, actionlv The ltlusic Hall grows dark and hushed as the audience spies Bill Seeley, sparkling emcee for the 1950 Varsity Varieties. Wie wait tensely in the wings, smeared thick with grease paint, ready to go on as soon as the applause dies down. Itts campus talent night. Wie grow more serious when Christmas and Easter seasons bring the Purduettes, Glee Club, and Uni- versity Choir to the stage. In Fowler Hall Romeo woos Juliet, the backstage crew applies a hasty coat of paint, and a world famous comedy or a modern drama is the bill of fare. Vile are not always the stars in front of the foot- lights. VVC take ou1' bows and step aside for the world greats. The London Philharmonic gives us a taste of longhair, the Sadler's Wlells' famous ballet troupe shows us a pirouette, and lifaggie Higgins and Cornelia Otis Skinner captivate their audiences. ive applaud long and loud for Spike Jones or ttlllr. Roberts from our through-a-friendw seats in third-row center. Thursday' conves, chats with Vassic, and Broadway lieadlinerswull are parts of Music Hall activity. 38