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

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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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189i THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO cHIcAaa. ILLINOIS OFFICE arTH: PRESIDEN'I April 16, 1941 To the Fiftieth Anniversary Cap and Gown: Our Fiftieth Anniversary is a year of celebration of our distinctions of the past. Coincidentally, and more important for the future, it 13 a critical year of struggle for the con- tinuance of our distinction. We have much to celebrate. When the University sprang full-fledged from the minds of its founders fifty years ago it immediately assumed a position of leadership in $merica and the world. In the intervening half century we have maintained our tradition of leadership on new frontiers. The special significance of the Univer- sity of Chicago is that it is free. It is imports:-T hot only for its owu sake that the University should continue to hold the position it has enjoyed. The decline of free universities in this country and their destruction abroad make all the more necessary the intellectual and spiritual leadership this institution is prepared to offer the world. Our celebration will go forward to its conclusion as planned. The Campaign must also meet our expectations. The University must go on from strength to strength. Sincerely yours, RM?Q THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGO FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 194l