Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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IX) X ' lIIS GIVEN QUANTITY (i.e., the freshies) was added, in the eonrse of approxi¬ mately twenty-four hours, the remainder of the eollege enrollment. By bus, ear, or the reliable thumb, they returned for another year of ' ork and fun — these “eollegiates” who really kne ’ tlie sehool, the faenltv, and one another. The halls and elassrooms, offiees and dormitories re-eehoed their eheerv helloes. It was no trouble at all to find a little sister or brother in the erowd of neweomers who might need the adviee of a sophistieated soph on the town’s (a) best theatre, (b) eheapest drugstore, and (e) most respeetable night elub. (How did that get in here?) . 7 .

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Ci omim of the reen First day activity MEANWHILE, THE EACULTY was kept busy explaining the exaet pro- eediire in registering and signing for eourses, advising the neweomers in se- leetion of a eurrieulum, or just pointing out the eafeteria to a weary freshman. Then eame the first assembly — an ex- ample of Things to Come — with songs and speeehes, adviee of some upperelass- men who ' Tnew the ropes” and the eheerful thought of one instruetor who eommented that less than one-third would probably graduate from S. T. C.! In a short time with the aid of a few upperelassmen who eame early, the freshmen were aequainted with the eampus, the building, and with those people who were willing and able to answer timid questions or direet them to Room 125. . 6 .

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s oaa (yyki ii The Athletic Association sponsors the first formal dance of the season THE SOCIAL WHIRL was officially j opened on September 4 when the faculty, in ' Test bib and tucker,” lined itself up for mass inspection by the students. A long, long line of professors, stretehing up the interminable length of the Social Room, reached its final¬ ity with Miss Ruth” and able upperelass- men restoring spirits and bolstering morale with ' ell-timed refreshments. After a fe ’ ’eeks spent at sehool, news from home was as weleome as manna from heayen. The annual Lreshman-Parent-Lae- ult ’ dinner yas a •onderful ehanee to get at least eertain members of the family here to look us oyer. And they eame — to enjoy the quips of the toastmaster, the mnsie of the String Ensemble and the College Chorus, the speeehes of Mr. Ceorge Chand¬ ler and Joe Colgain, and “Miss Ruth’s” fried chieken and “fixins.” . 8 .