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10 as, aris! SN Raa stat sa i Jesse Wife: My husband speaks mostly for the twenties. Yes, everyone could sit in Hardie then and did, for chapel every day, and yes, on Saturday as well. We’d have a prayer, some Scripture or another sacred text- some faculty would kick the orthodox with Hindu stuff or a piece of Blake, | think. And then there were announcements, bump-meetings of sororities in some corner of the hall. Exciting times were when the ODK’s or other honorary groups tapped new members in their seats. We died to see our friends elected, or our enemies. And if you lived in a dorm, as | did (my husband, this guy, not my husband then, and not an intimate friend, either, you can bet — he was from the town, he lived at home), you ate in family style, please pass the peas, in dresses coats with ties. Sophomore Man: Didn’t the college have some famous profs, you know, like Allen Tate and that novelist ... Wife: You mean Robert Penn Warren, teacher, poet, everything there is in literature? Yes, he was here one year. | had a class with Mr. Tate. He was very formal; | was scared of him. | don’t think anyone | knew got an A from him. Warren didn’t stay, but people said he excited them in class; not just the girls said that, innocent, of course. But you are asking from the big end of a telescope. They were not so famous then, and we were not sophisticates in art. S50: In my years Dr. Diehl retired, the college got Phi Beta Kappa, war’s end had brought fresh blood and hot competitors for grades. We thought we’d come into a golden age. 30: You had. That was a-building in my time, | the dream of Dr. Diehl. T'was made by means of tough high-mindedness, for the money wasn’t much. We learned greatly to believe, tl in what | can’t remember. In the school, the honor thing, brilliance of the faculty, on trust, just that. It seemed to work for us; we had no jobs, but plenty character. The decade ahead of me was awful; | can’t figure now why we see some good in that Depression. Well, we were young, had friends, perhaps someone to care about us
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50: You can tell that later. At the moment we are being honored as alumni by a delegation of the campus youth. (The original young man arrives with his woman friend and another young couple. They indulge in awkward introductions and handshakes.) Senior: Mr. Willoughby ... and Mrs., too. We'd like to hear about Southwestern in those times when it was new in Memphis, My friends here plan to do a fifty-year issue of the year-book. They’d like your story. 30: Aha, | didn’t think nostalgia propelled you. Well, we have that in common, wife and |, and, | guess, all the rest of you: we none of us dwell tearfully behind. | have some curiosity maybe but | mostly don’t think twice about the past. Let’s see, fifty years ago this place still looked barren; trees were small, Palmer and the science building and two dorms, also the dining hall, looked pretty stark and new. The gym, which sat where your Student Center is, was just a barn, green colored barn, | think it was. Two bleachers and two goal-posts made the football field. The rest was grass. That too was colored green. No place to hide, so if you kissed a girl, you boldly did it with a flourish like a movie-ending, Clark Gable in the sunset with the millions looking on. Wife: Leave it to you to mention kissing; you'd have had a major in it, wouldn’t you? 30: Took two to tango, lady. But as for that, my Lord, we had a big dance in the gym nearly every Saturday of this world. Tux and evening dress with fat corsage. Wife: | don’t recall the ones you bought were fat. | think you got em off somebody’s bush. But when you speak of dancing, then | feel sad. That was a time, the dances, they seemed the thing I'd wait for, talk about, dream toward every week. Oh, the music, brassy, sweet, and we’d go to Fortune’s intermission-time. ’50: Things were just the same for me, but we had Vet’s Village, trailers laced across with wash and megaphoned with babies’ screams, and barracks set up to house departments, class-rooms and the like. 70: There were still a couple of those in my time, rotted partly, sagging floors, wind through cracks ... Junior Woman: Wasn't the enrollment small in the thirties?
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