University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

 - Class of 1941

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Vonderwoter is inimitobTe and because it's great fun to Tel down one's hair and yell. The prowess, It always goes out 0F its way to give an Dramatic Association next displays its excellent performance for its guests, in order to inspire them to participate in or, better yet, ottend its productions. After the show everyone odjourns to the Reynolds club for a theater party, 0 merry Free-Tor-oll with more entertainment. This year Friday brought both disappointment and romance to the campus. The Tong owoited picnic at the Loslcer estate had to be cancelled, because Mr. Losker was using it for his current honeymoon. No one wanted to interfere with love, so they postpOned the picnic to Future years and were contented with rollicking about the campus. Despite Chicogo's pubficized lack of SChOOT spirit where othletics are concerned, Saturday oTwoys brings huge crowds out for informal games and tennis matchesi Freshmen compete with upper- clossmen and oFten trounce them thorougth. The clay! and as it happens the week ends, with :3 NC dance in the Tdo Noyes Gym, o traditional close to Phi Psi Rushing FootboTl Soturdoy that has outlived the Foobtall. So the week ends! Its success is undeniobTe. Freshmen are completely at home on the Ivy covered compus and happily reconmled to untidy rooms and never getting to bed before two A.Mi They strut obout greeting new friends, Freshmen and seniors alike, with the assurance of old timers. Upperclossmen, too, are fully oriented to o horde oF new faces. There are more buddies to borrow from and more friends to coke with. Ciub ond fraternityr members hove octuoll'y met the scores of people they are rushing and have been able to judge From appearances end not recordst A Freshmen with 0 string of activities in high school might have turned out to be a bust, end one with o meek: unassuming high school record might have been hiding a queen. And so the stage is oTreody being set For 0 more robust orientation, one much less to the satisfaction of the Freshmen, . . . hell week. . when neophytes are no longer honored guests but rather the goats 0F endless pranks. Psi U Pledges. Melvin Douglas and Alpha Dells. 23

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Registration in Bulllell. v general what c: freshmen should know and then during the sprung coach erstwhile counselors on what to show. These counselors, chosen for their personality and interest in people, guarantee the Freshmen 0 good time while attending all of the octivities. A week before school begins, these loyal under- graduates cut short their vacations and seek out their charges in order to show them the benefits of college lute. Many have oJreody wrttten each otherduring the summer,ond although 0 glumourous photograph 0F on upper clossmon may Hotter be yond recognition, they greet one another like old lriends. The First night at school, all of the gtl'lS gather in the dorms for 0 gay pajama party complete with cookies and cakes. Since the men are cordially not Invited, they unconsciously congregate for CI carefully tend subtelyD planned bull session. Both are always successtul, since hog and bull sessions are advertised the worid over 05 college recmire- mBHtSI Then, to oHset the boring freshman examinations! a day by day program Is arranged On Monday the Alumm Foundation gives 0 luncheon where speeches are cleverly mixed wrth courses, 0nd at four o'clock, the Freshmen get their First glimpse of Dean Smith's sparkling personality. T0 impess the newcomers and to recruit the dimlnishing ranks, upperclossmen spend all day Tuesday boosting about extra currtCUICIt' activities and exposing the ms and outs ot the less formal side at School. To msure a good impression, they end with o rmxer where cult the men, Old and new, set out to Find themselves the freshman girl. Comes Wednesday and John Vanderwater cor- rots the whole class, dad in jeans and ten gallon hats, Into a barn dance. Desptte annual slceptttjsm1 the dance is otways a big success, because John

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