Transylvania University - Crimson Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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AND DO THESE THINGS Freshman trails hither and yon hunting for 205 Morrison or any other place where one can take a placement test. Then comes a two-hour stretch of perspiration and pencil pushing while the new collegian racks his brain for the education he left behind in high school. Registration, all four complicated hours of It, follows, and Freshman is now a Transylvanlan. Dressed in onions and other weird accoutrements. Freshman now begins to attend classes and buy books. Yes, they really cost four dollars, and the assignments really are that long, but somehow th ere are more important things going on for the first week or two anyhow. There are pajama parades, to the dirge of We Love the Sophomores, and then rushing. Meanwhile, Freshman learns to live In one room, to hang pictures on straight pins and to get along with a roommate who insists on listening to the Singing Cowboys In the very early morning. But somehow adjustments are made and the compromising parties never know who has given In. First outside reading Is assigned, and studying begins from sheer necessity.

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AND MEET THESE PEOPLE Transylvania ' s genial president always Impresses the newcomer with his genuineness and spon+anle+y. In his two years here Dr. McLaIn has convinced both students and alumni that our college has begun the upward climb toward prominence and greater usefulness. Freshmen find him a good adviser, a genial host and a hearty advocate of our tradition for friendliness. Our college Dean, Dr. George V. Moore, is the good- natured head of the academic department. Freshmen rook to him for advice on class schedules and conduct in general. He is the student minister ' s best friend. Mr. (not professor, please) Leggett guides the new first year student through the hair-tearing days of registration; continues his helpfulness by advising men students. Al- ways he Is their advocate and friend. hierself new to the campus this year. Dean Margaret Newman counsels new girls on campus activities and daily deportment. A splendid manager of the campus calen- dar, she is a gracious hostess as well.

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IT TAKES ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE TO MAKE A WORLD EVEN OUR LITTLE ONE